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Alan Baker
Alan Baker
Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College
Verified email at swarthmore.edu - Homepage
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Simplicity
A Baker
5572004
Are there genuine mathematical explanations of physical phenomena?
A Baker
Mind 114 (454), 223-238, 2005
4622005
Mathematical explanation in science
A Baker
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2009
3102009
Quantitative parsimony and explanatory power
A Baker
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54 (2), 245-259, 2003
1462003
Indexing and mathematical explanation
A Baker, M Colyvan
Philosophia Mathematica 19 (3), 323-334, 2011
882011
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
A Baker, EN Zalta
Retrieved April 4, 2005, 2004
882004
Occam’s Razor in science: a case study from biogeography
A Baker
Biology & Philosophy 22 (2), 193-215, 2007
722007
Science-driven mathematical explanation
A Baker
Mind 121 (482), 243-267, 2012
642012
Experimental mathematics
A Baker
Erkenntnis 68, 331-344, 2008
552008
Mathematics and explanatory generality
A Baker
Philosophia Mathematica 25 (2), 194-209, 2017
492017
Does the existence of mathematical objects make a difference?
A Baker
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2), 246-264, 2003
412003
Mathematics, indispensability and scientific progress
A Baker
Erkenntnis (1975-) 55 (1), 85-116, 2001
412001
Non-deductive methods in mathematics
A Baker
392009
The indispensability argument and multiple foundations for mathematics
A Baker
The Philosophical Quarterly 53 (210), 49-67, 2003
342003
Mathematical induction and explanation
A Baker
Analysis 70 (4), 681-689, 2010
332010
Is there a problem of induction for mathematics
A Baker
Mathematical knowledge, 59-72, 2007
332007
Mathematical accidents and the end of explanation
A Baker
New waves in philosophy of mathematics, 137-159, 2009
322009
Epistemology: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
M Steup
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005
29*2005
Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation
A Baker
Synthese 193, 333-350, 2016
272016
Complexity, networks, and non-uniqueness
A Baker
Foundations of Science 18, 687-705, 2013
202013
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