Discontinuities and singularities, data and phenomena: for Referentialism
Peer reviewed, Journal article
Accepted version
View/
Date
2019Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
- Department of Philosophy [135]
Original version
Bangu SI. Discontinuities and singularities, data and phenomena: for Referentialism. Synthese. 2019;196(5):1919-1937 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1747-2Abstract
The paper rebuts a currently popular criticism against a certain take on the referential role of discontinuities and singularities in the physics of first-order phase transitions. It also elaborates on a proposal I made previously on how to understand this role within the framework provided by the distinction between data and phenomena.