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The New Mechanical Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The New Mechanical Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and
of science-one that understands both natural and social phenomena
to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science
as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing
on an expanding literature on mechanisms in physical, life, and
social sciences, Stuart Glennan offers an account of the nature of
mechanisms and of the models used to represent them. A key quality
of mechanisms is that they are particulars - located at different
places and times, with no one just like another. The crux of the
scientist's challenge is to balance the complexity and
particularity of mechanisms with our need for representations of
them that are abstract and general. This volume weaves together
metaphysical and methodological questions about mechanisms.
Metaphysically, it explores the implications of the mechanistic
framework for our understanding of classical philosophical
questions about the nature of objects, properties, processes,
events, causal relations, natural kinds and laws of nature.
Methodologically, the book explores how scientists build models to
represent and understand phenomena and the mechanisms responsible
for them. Using this account of representation, Glennan offers a
scheme for characterizing the enormous diversity of things that
scientists call mechanisms, and explores the scope and limits of
mechanistic explanation.
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