Timeline for Nancy Cartwright's dichotomy
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| Aug 31 at 19:57 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | An example is Popper’s “falsifiability criterion” which was created by a philosopher but does not really work in practice. | |
| Aug 31 at 19:49 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | The distinction is interesting but I might point out that physicists themselves are usually not aware of philosophical approaches to physics and model building and prefer to figure out how things work by getting their hands dirty (they are the ones that know where the shoe bites because they wear it, to paraphrase something Weinberg said). | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 6:23 | vote | accept | Mikhail Katz | ||
| Jul 8, 2023 at 19:21 | comment | added | paul garrett | @SamHopkins, I myself tend to think that mildly philosophical questions about mathematics can be part of mathematics, and needn't be partitioned-off... since mathematicians' attitudes/philosophies about things certainly have an effect on the course of events ... | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 6, 2023 at 19:21 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 18:47 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Well it certainly has to do with mathematical modeling in mathematical physics. We have both a tag for mathematical physics, and a tag for reference request, which is what this question is. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 18:45 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | I'm not down-voting or voting to close, but to me this line of inquiry seems like a part of the philosophy of science, and not a part of mathematics per se. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 18:36 | history | asked | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |