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A pluralist account of non-causal explanation in science and mathematics

Marc Lange: Because without cause: Non-causal explanation in science and mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xxii+489pp, $74.00 HB

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Thanks to Rob Knowles and Alex Reutlinger for helpful comments on a draft of this review.

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Saatsi, J. A pluralist account of non-causal explanation in science and mathematics. Metascience 27, 3–9 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0249-z

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