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The Applicability of Mathematics: Beyond Mapping Accounts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Davide Rizza
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Abstract

In this article, I argue that mapping-based accounts of applications cannot be comprehensive and must be supplemented by analyses of other, qualitatively different, forms of application. I support these claims by providing a detailed discussion of the application of mathematics to a problem of election design that is prominent in social choice theory.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 398 - 412
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