Series |
Oxford studies in philosophy of science Oxford studies in philosophy of science. ^A514174
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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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-482) and index. |
LCCN | 2016010808 |
ISBN | 9780190269487 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0190269480 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |