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Mechanisms in Science - Method or Metaphysics? (Hardcover)
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Mechanisms in Science - Method or Metaphysics? (Hardcover)
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In recent years what has come to be called the 'New Mechanism' has
emerged as a framework for thinking about the philosophical
assumptions underlying many areas of science, especially in
sciences such as biology, neuroscience, and psychology. This book
offers a fresh look at the role of mechanisms, by situating novel
analyses of central philosophical issues related to mechanisms
within a rich historical perspective of the concept of mechanism as
well as detailed case studies of biological mechanisms (such as
apoptosis). It develops a new position, Methodological Mechanism,
according to which mechanisms are to be viewed as causal pathways
that are theoretically described and are underpinned by networks of
difference-making relations. In contrast to metaphysically inflated
accounts, this study characterises mechanism as a concept-in-use in
science that is deflationary and metaphysically neutral, but still
methodologically useful and central to scientific practice.
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