Explanatory Indispensability Arguments in Metaethics and Philosophy of Mathematics

In Uri D. Leibowitz & Neil Sinclair (eds.), Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press UK (2016)
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