The Applicability of Mathematics: Beyond Mapping Accounts

Philosophy of Science 80 (3):398-412 (2013)
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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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