Alan Baker (baker-a)

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Bibliography

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 ústavu AV ČR.
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.