Because without cause : non-causal explanations in science and mathematics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
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Table of 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?