Article citationsMore>>

Rodríguez-Yañez, A., Aboites, V., & Rionda, L. M. (2021). Nancy Cartwright, una introducción a su filosofía de la ciencia. Revista Mexicana de Física E, 18, 168-177.
https://doi.org/10.31349/RevMexFisE.18.168

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Electromagnetic Theory: Some Philosophical and Mathematical Problems of the Wave and Helmholtz Equations

  AUTHORS: Vicente Aboites

  KEYWORDS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Electromagnetism

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol.12 No.3, August 30, 2022

  ABSTRACT: In this article some intriguing aspects of electromagnetic theory and its relation to mathematics and reality are discussed, in particular those related to the suppositions needed to obtain the wave equations from Maxwell equations and from there Helmholtz equation. The following questions are discussed. How is that equations obtained with so many irreal or fictitious assumptions may provide a description that is in a high degree verifiable? Must everything that is possible to deduce from a theoretical mathematical model occur in the world? Does everything that takes place in the world have a mathematical description?