MARC LANGE Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and Associate Chair

Marc Lange specializes in philosophy of science and related areas of metaphysics and epistemology. He is the author of three books: Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature (Oxford, 2009), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (Blackwell, 2002), and Natural Laws in Scientific Practice (Oxford, 2000). Some of his recent papers are: “Dimensional Explanations”, Noûs (forthcoming), “Must the Fundamental Laws of Physics Be Complete?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2009), “Why Proofs by Mathematical Induction are Generally Not Explanatory”, Analysis (forthcoming), “Could the Laws of Nature Change?”, Philosophy of Science (2008), “Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make”, Analysis (2008), "Laws and Meta-Laws of Nature: Conservation Laws and Symmetries,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2007), “How to Account for the Relation Between Chancy Facts and Deterministic Laws,” Mind (2006), “Do Chances Receive Equal Treatment Under The Laws? Or: Must Chances Be Probabilities?”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2006), “How Can Instantaneous Velocity Fulfill Its Causal Role?” Philosophical Review (2005), “Ecological Laws: What Would They Be and Why Would They Matter?,” Oikos [The Journal of the Nordic Ecological Society] (2005), “Would Direct Realism Resolve the Classical Problem of Induction?”, Noûs (2004), "Who's Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them," Erkenntnis (2002), "Baseball, Pessimistic Inductions, and the Turnover Fallacy," Analysis (2002), "The Most Famous Equation," The Journal of Philosophy (2001). [Complete CV] 

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