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Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science) by Marc Lange is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science) about?
Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard some proofs as explaining why the theorems being proved do in fact hold. This book proposes new philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics.
Who reads Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marc Lange
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190269494
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Philosophy, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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