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Because without cause : non-causal explanations in science and mathematics / Marc Lange.

Author/creator Lange, Marc, 1963- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionxxii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Oxford studies in philosophy of science
Oxford studies in philosophy of science. ^A514174
Contents What makes a scientific explanation distinctively mathematical? -- "There sweep great general principles which all the laws seem to follow" -- The Lorentz Transformations and the structure of explanations by constraint -- The parallelogram of forces and the autonomy of statics -- Really statistical explanations and genetic drift -- Dimensional explanations -- Aspects of mathematical explanation : symmetry, salience, and simplicity -- Mathematical coincidences and mathematical explanations that unify -- Desargues's Theorem as a case study of mathematical explanation, existence, and natural properties -- Mathematical coincidence and scientific explanation -- What makes some reducible physical properties explanatory?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 461-482) and index.
LCCN 2016010808
ISBN9780190269487 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN0190269480 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

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