The New Mechanical Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 October 2019
- ISBN 9780198848073
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 233x154x14 mm
- Weight 428 g
- Language English 32
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Short description:
Stuart Glennan offers a new vision of nature and science: both natural and social phenomena are seen as the product of mechanisms, and the work of science is to understand those mechanisms. Glennan offers an account of the nature of mechanisms and how we represent them, and explores the philosophical implications of the mechanistic framework.
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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.
Glennan's The New Mechanical Philosophy will undoubtedly engender further conversation...The text is certainly a worthwhile read for those interested in metaphysics of science, philosophers of science, and even practitioners in the brain and behavioral sciences.
Table of Contents:
What is the New Mechanical Philosophy?
Mechanisms
Models, Mechanisms and How-Explanations
Mechanisms, Models and Kinds
Types of Mechanisms
Mechanisms and Causation
Production and Relevance
Explanation: Mechanistic and Otherwise
