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SUMMARY:Do mathematical explanations impose a necessity on the natural wor
 ld? - Aditya Jha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:Do some physical facts have a mathematical\, as opposed to cau
 sal\, explanation\, and do these physical facts obtain from a degree of (m
 athematical) necessity stronger than that of contingent causal laws? In th
 is talk\, I focus on an influential account of mathematical explanations b
 y Marc Lange\, and argue that purported mathematical explanations are actu
 ally causal explanations in disguise. I show that such explanations are no
  different from ordinary applications of mathematics\, as they work not by
  appealing to what the world must be like as a matter of mathematical nece
 ssity but by appealing to various contingent causal facts.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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