b. 1963
Marc Lange is a contemporary American philosopher of science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in laws of nature, scientific explanation, and the philosophy of biology. He is known for his work on counterfactuals, non-causal explanation, and the metaphysical foundations of scientific theories, including scrutiny of the epistemic and cognitive standing of evolutionary theory.
Developed an influential account of laws of nature grounded in counterfactual stability
Authored 'Because Without Cause' (2017), a landmark treatment of non-causal scientific explanation
Challenged conventional accounts of the cognitive status of the theory of natural selection
Contributed to the metaphysics of modality as applied to scientific laws
Authored 'Laws and Lawmakers' (2009) on the metaphysical basis of natural law