Because Without Cause

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Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being proved hold. In this book, Marc Lange proposes philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics. These topics have been unjustly neglected in the philosophy of science and mathematics. One important kind of non-causal scientific explanation is termed explanation by constraint. These explanations work by providing information about what makes certain facts especially inevitable - more necessary than the ordinary laws of nature connecting causes to their effects. Facts explained in this way transcend the hurly-burly of cause and effect. Many physicists have regarded the laws of kinematics, the great conservation laws, the coordinate transformations, and the parallelogram of forces as having explanations by constraint. This book presents an original account of explanations by constraint, concentrating on a variety of examples from classical physics and special relativity. This book also offers original accounts of several other varieties of non-causal scientific explanation. Dimensional explanations work by showing how some law of nature arises merely from the dimensional relations among the quantities involved. Really statistical explanations include explanations that appeal to regression toward the mean and other canonical manifestations of chance. Lange provides an original account of what makes certain mathematical proofs but not others explain what they prove. Mathematical explanation connects to a host of other important mathematical ideas, including coincidences in mathematics, the significance of giving multiple proofs of the same result, and natural properties in mathematics. Introducing many examples drawn from actual science and mathematics, with extended discussions of examples from Lagrange, Desargues, Thomson, Sylvester, Maxwell, Rayleigh, Einstein, and Feynman, Because Without Cause's proposals and examples should set the agenda for future work on non-causal explanation.

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Genre : Mathematics
Author : Marc Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2017
File : 513 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780190269487


The Student S Journal

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Genre : Shorthand
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Release : 1889
File : 654 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015086782193


The Works Of Aurelius Augustine Writings In Connection With The Manichaean Heresy Translated By Richard Stothert 1872

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Genre : Theology
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Release : 1872
File : 606 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCBK:C020228174


Modern Philosophy

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Genre : Philosophy, Modern
Author : Francis Bowen
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Release : 1877
File : 508 Pages
ISBN-13 : MSU:31293036592008


The Law Reports

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Genre : Law reports, digests, etc
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Release : 1875
File : 414 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000022558757


A Treatise On Human Nature

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Genre : Ethics
Author : David Hume
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Release : 1878
File : 492 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433067226096


A Course In Mandarin Lessons

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Genre : Chinese language
Author : Calvin Wilson Mateer
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Release : 1909
File : 444 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433089928661


Reports Of Cases Argued And Decided In The Supreme Court Of Georgia At The

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Genre : Law reports, digests, etc
Author : Georgia. Supreme Court
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Release : 1896
File : 894 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924070278514


Engineering And Mining Journal

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Genre : Engineering
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Release : 1887
File : 998 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924097940195


Atlantic Reporter

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Genre : Law reports, digests, etc
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Release : 1918
File : 1084 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000067688036