The problem of explanation in mathematics

2016/21/B/HS1/01955

Keywords

Descriptors

  • HS1_4: Logika, metodologia nauk, filozofia nauki
  • HS1_2: Ontologia i metafizyka, ontologie szczegółowe
  • HS1_3: Epistemologia (w tym: źródła poznania, kryteria prawdy, filozofia języka)

Panel

HS1 – Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Filozofii

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

prof. Krzysztof Piotr Wójtowicz

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call

OPUS 11 – announced on 2016-03-15

Amount awarded
255 720 PLN
Project start date
2017-02-17
Project end date
2022-08-16
Project duration
66 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Project description

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Publication in academic press/journals (7)

  1. Theory of quantum computation and philosophy of mathematics (II)

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Logic and Logical Philosophy (year: 2019, volume: 29 (1), pages: 173-193), Publisher: UMK
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/LLP.2018.006 – link to the publication
  2. Throwing spatial light: On topological explanation in Gestalt psychology.

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz, Bartłomiej Skowron
    Academic press:
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (year: 2020, volume: online first, pages: 46044), Publisher: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11097-020-09691-1 – link to the publication
  3. Kategoria wyjaśniania w filozofii matematyki Godla

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Studia Semiotyczne (year: 2018, volume: XXXII (2), pages: 107-127), Publisher: PTS
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.26333/sts.xxxii2.07 – link to the publication
  4. A graph model for probabilities of nested contidionals

    Authors:
    Anna Wójtowicz, Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Linguistics and Philosophy (year: 2021, volume: online-first, pages: online-first), Publisher: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10988-021-09324-z – link to the publication
  5. Dutch Book Against Lewis

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz, Anna Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Synthese (year: 2021, volume: 199, pages: 9185–92), Publisher: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11229-021-03199-0 – link to the publication
  6. A metaphysical foundation for mathematical philosophy

    Authors:
    Wójtowicz K., Skowron B.
    Academic press:
    Synthese (year: 2022, volume: 200, pages: 46050), Publisher: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11229-022-03760-5 – link to the publication
  7. A stochastic graphs semantics for conditionals

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz, Anna Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Erkenntnis (year: 2019, volume: online first, pages: online first), Publisher: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10670-019-00144-z – link to the publication

Book publications / chapters in book publications (6)

  1. Why Categories?

    Authors:
    Kuś M. Skowron B. Wójtowicz K.
    Book:
    Category Theory in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy (year: 2019, volume: 235, pages: 46041), Publisher: Springer (Proceedings in Physics)
    Status:
    Published
  2. The status of mathematical proofs and the Enhanced Indispensability Argument

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Book:
    Metaphilosophy (tytuł roboczy) (year: 2019, volume: I, pages: 180-194), Publisher: Brill
    Status:
    Published
  3. Mathematical modalities and mathematical explanation

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Book:
    Philosophical Approaches to the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics (year: 2021, volume: I, pages: 123-149), Publisher: Brill
    Status:
    Published
  4. Are there category-theoretical explanations of physical phenomena?

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Book:
    Category Theory in Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy (year: 2019, volume: 235, pages: 33-43), Publisher: Springer (Proceedings in Physics)
    Status:
    Published
  5. The significance of relativistic computation for philosophy of mathematics

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Book:
    Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti on unity of science: from computing to relativity theory through algebraic logic (year: 2021, volume: 19, pages: 165-183), Publisher: Springer
    Status:
    Published
  6. Does mathematical possibility imply existence?

    Authors:
    Krzysztof Wójtowicz
    Book:
    Contemporary Polish Ontology (year: 2019, volume: 82 (Phil. An.), pages: 285-302), Publisher: de Gryuter
    Status:
    Published

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