MARC LANGE Professor Associate Chair

Marc Lange specializes in philosophy of science and related areas of metaphysics and epistemology.  He is the author of two books: Natural Laws in Scientific Practice (2000) and An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (2002).  Sample publications: "Lawlikeness," Noûs (1993); "Scientific Realism and Components: The Case of Classical Astronomy," Monist (1994); "Dispositions and Scientific Explanation," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (1994); "Are There Natural Laws concerning Particular Biological Species?," Journal of Philosophy (1995); "Life, Artificial Life, and Scientific Explanation," Philosophy of Science (1996); "Inductive Confirmation, Counterfactual Conditionals, and Laws of Nature," Philosophical Studies (1997);  "Laws, Counterfactuals, Stability, and Degrees of Lawhood," Philosophy of Science (1999); "Calibration and the Epistemological Role of Bayesian Conditionalization," Journal of Philosophy (1999); "Why Are the Laws of Nature So Important to Science?," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1999); "Salience, Supervenience, and Layer Cakes in Sellars's Scientific Realism, McDowell's Moral Realism, and the Philosophy of Mind," Philosophical Studies (2000); "The Most Famous Equation," Journal of Philosophy (2001); "Baseball, Pessimistic Inductions, and the Turnover Fallacy," Analysis (2002); "Who's Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them," Erkenntnis (2002); "Laws and Their Stability," Synthese (forthcoming); “The Autonomy of Functional Biology: A Reply to Rosenberg,” Biology & Philosophy (2004); "Would Direct Realism Resolve the Classical Problem of Induction," Nous (2004); Bayesianism and Unification," Philosophy of Science (2004); "A Note of Scientific Essentialism, Laws of Nature, and Counterfactual Conditionals," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2004); "Laws and Their Stability," Synthese (2005); "A Counterfactual Analysis of the Concepts of Logical Truth and Necessity," Philosophical Studies (2005); "How Can Instantaneous Velocity Fulfill Its Causal Role?" Philosophical Review (2005); "How to Account for the Relation Between Chancy Facts and Deterministic Laws," Mind (2006); "Must the Fundamental Laws of Physics Be Complete?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, (forthcoming). [Complete CV] 

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email: mlange@email.unc.edu
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