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Baker, Alan. 1998. “The Explicit Definition of Logical
Connectives.” in The Logica Yearbook
1997, edited by Timothy Childers, pp. 128–140. Praha:
Filosofia. Nakladetelstvı́ Filosofického
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Baker, Alan. 1999. “Are the Laws of Nature Deductively Closed?”
in Causation and the Laws of
Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 91–110. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Baker, Alan. 2002. “Maximizing Principles and Mathematical
Methodology.” Logique et Analyse 45(179–180):
269–281.
Baker, Alan. 2003. “Quantitative Parsimony and Explanatory
Power.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 54(2): 245–259.
Baker, Alan. 2004a.
“Malebranche on Laws of Nature and God’s General
Volitions.” in Geschichte der
Naturphilosophie, edited by Uwe Meixner and Albert Newen, pp. 121–134. Logical Analysis and
History of Philosophy n. 7. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.
Baker, Alan. 2004b.
“Simplicity.” in The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California:
The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language;
Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/simplicity/.
Baker, Alan. 2005a. “Are there Genuine Mathematical Explanations of Physical
Phenomena?” Mind 114(454): 223–238.
Baker, Alan. 2005b. “Malebranche’s Occasionalism: A Strategic
Reinterpretation.” American Catholic Philosophical
Quarterly 79(2): 251–272.
Baker, Alan. 2006. “Review of Chihara (2004).”
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 47(3): 435–442.
Baker, Alan. 2007a. “Is There a Problem of Induction for
Mathematics?” in Mathematical
Knowledge, edited by Mary Leng, Alexander C. Paseau, and Michael D. Potter, pp. 59–73. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199228249.001.0001.
Baker, Alan. 2007b. “Drinking Discretely: Parsons’s Old
Peculiar.” Analysis 67(4): 318–321.
Baker, Alan. 2007c. “Occam’s Razor in Science: A Case Study from
Biogeography.” Biology and Philosophy 22(2):
193–215.
Baker, Alan. 2008.
“Complexity Unfavoured.” Analysis
68(1): 85–88.
Baker, Alan. 2009a. “Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics.” in
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research
Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2009/entries/mathematics-nondeductive/.
Baker, Alan. 2009b. “Mathematical Accidents and the End of
Explanation.” in New Waves in
Philosophy of Mathematics, edited by Otávio Bueno and Øystein Linnebo, pp. 137–159. New
Waves in Philosophy. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Baker, Alan. 2009c. “Mathematical Explanation in Science.”
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60(3):
611–633.
Baker, Alan. 2010a. “A Medley of Philosophy of Mathematics [review of Preyer and Peter
(2008)].” Metascience 19(2): 221–224,
doi:10.1007/s11016-010-9360-0.
Baker, Alan. 2010b. “Mathematical Induction and Explanation.”
Analysis 70(4): 681–689.
Baker, Alan. 2010c.
“Simplicity.” in The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California:
The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language;
Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2010/entries/simplicity/.
Baker, Alan. 2012.
“Science-Driven Mathematical Explanation.”
Mind 121(482): 243–267.
Baker, Alan. 2015. “Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics.” in
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research
Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/mathematics-nondeductive/.
Baker, Alan. 2016a. “Parsimony and Inference to the Best Mathematical
Explanation.” Synthese 193(2): 333–350.
Baker, Alan. 2016b. “Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical and
Ethical.” in Explanation in
Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability, edited
by Uri D. Leibowitz and Neil Sinclair, pp. 220–235. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198778592.001.0001.
Baker, Alan. 2016c.
“Simplicity.” in The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California:
The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language;
Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/simplicity/.
Baker, Alan. 2017. “Mathematics and Explanatory Generality.”
Philosophia Mathematica 25(2): 194–209.
Baker, Alan. 2020. “Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics.” in
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research
Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/mathematics-nondeductive/.
Baker, Alan. 2022.
“Simplicity.” in The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California:
The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language;
Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2022/entries/simplicity/.
Baker, Alan and Colyvan, Mark. 2011. “Indexing and Mathematical Explanation.”
Philosophia Mathematica 19(3): 323–334.
Further References
Chihara, Charles S. 2004. A Structural Account of Mathematics. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Preyer, Gerhard and Peter, Georg. 2008. Philosophy of Mathematics: Set Theory, Measuring
Theories, and Nominalism. Logos n. 13.
Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, doi:10.1515/9783110323689.