Structure and domain-independence in the formal sciences

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 30:721-723 (1999)
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Replies to Kevin de Laplante’s ‘Certainty and Domain-Independence in the Sciences of Complexity’ (de Laplante, 1999), defending the thesis of J. Franklin, ‘The formal sciences discover the philosophers’ stone’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25 (1994), 513-33, that the sciences of complexity can combine certain knowledge with direct applicability to reality.

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James Franklin
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What is structural realism?James Ladyman - 1998 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (3):409-424.
Mathematics as a science of patterns.Michael David Resnik - 1997 - New York ;: Oxford University Press.
Naturalism in mathematics.Penelope Maddy - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The formal sciences discover the philosophers' stone.James Franklin - 1994 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (4):513-533.

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