我们可以用数学来理解物理现象吗?

IF 0.8 4区哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI:10.1387/THEORIA.18108

Gabriel Târziu

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摘要

数学能帮助我们理解物理现象吗?试图回答这个问题的一种方法是参与最近关于物理现象是否存在数学解释的哲学争论。如果存在这样一种东西，考虑到解释与理解之间的关系，我们就可以说，对我们的问题有一个肯定的答案。但是，如果我们不同意数学可以在科学中发挥解释作用呢?我们还能认为上述问题有一个肯定的答案吗?我在这里的主要目的是给出一种解释，在文献中讨论的一些情况下，数学有助于我们对物理现象的理解，尽管它无法解释。

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Can we have mathematical understanding of physical phenomena?

Can mathematics contribute to our understanding of physical phenomena? One way to try to answer this question is by getting involved in the recent philosophical dispute about the existence of mathematical explanations of physical phenomena. If there is such a thing, given the relation between explanation and understanding, we can say that there is an affirmative answer to our question. But what if we do not agree that mathematics can play an explanatory role in science? Can we still consider that the above question can have an affirmative answer? My main aim here is to give an account that takes mathematics, in some of the cases discussed in the literature, as contributing to our understanding of physical phenomena despite not being explanatory.

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THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-

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1.30

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7 weeks

期刊介绍： THEORIA is open to original and relevant papers from any of the fields covered by the journal, i.e. logic and philosophy of logic, history and philosophy of mathematics, history and philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind and cognition. Articles in English and Spanish are preferred, but the journal also accepts articles written in any of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula.