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    The Claremont McKenna College Philosophy Department is hosting a talk by Professor Marc Lange from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill titled "Aspects of Mathematical Explanation". Professor Lange will propose simple examples from different areas of mathematics to illustrate the distinction between proofs that explain why theorems are true and proofs that just demonstrate theorems. He will argue that these examples support a particular account of explanation in mathematics involving proofs. The talk will also compare this account to other proposed views and discuss how symmetry, unification, coincidence, and natural properties relate to mathematical explanation.

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    The Claremont McKenna College Philosophy Department is hosting a talk by Professor Marc Lange from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill titled "Aspects of Mathematical Explanation". Professor Lange will propose simple examples from different areas of mathematics to illustrate the distinction between proofs that explain why theorems are true and proofs that just demonstrate theorems. He will argue that these examples support a particular account of explanation in mathematics involving proofs. The talk will also compare this account to other proposed views and discuss how symmetry, unification, coincidence, and natural properties relate to mathematical explanation.

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    The Claremont McKenna College Philosophy Department is hosting a talk by Professor Marc Lange from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill titled "Aspects of Mathematical Explanation". Professor Lange will propose simple examples from different areas of mathematics to illustrate the distinction between proofs that explain why theorems are true and proofs that just demonstrate theorems. He will argue that these examples support a particular account of explanation in mathematics involving proofs. The talk will also compare this account to other proposed views and discuss how symmetry, unification, coincidence, and natural properties relate to mathematical explanation.

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    The Claremont McKenna College Philosophy Department

    invites you to attend the talk of

    Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor and Philosophy Department Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Professor Marc Lange

    "Aspects of Mathematical Explanation"


    Unlike explanation in science, explanation in mathematics has received relatively scant attention from philosophers. Whereas there are canonical examples of scientific explanations (as well as canonical examples of failed attempts at scientific explanation), few (if any) examples have become widely accepted as exhibiting the distinction between proofs that explain why some mathematical theorem holds and proofs that merely prove that the theorem holds. In this talk, I will propose some very simple examples (drawn from several branches of mathematics) and argue that they suggest a particular account of explanation in mathematics (at least, of those explanations consisting of proofs). I will compare this account of explanation in mathematics to others that have been offered. Among the aspects of mathematical explanation that I will touch upon are symmetry, unification, mathematical coincidence, and natural mathematical properties.

    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:15 pm Freeberg Forum, Kravis LC62


    Claremont McKenna College
    For more information, please contact Amy Kind at akind@cmc.edu

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