Name: The new Mechanical Philosophy (en Inglés)
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Author: Stuart Glennan
ISBN: 9780198848073

portada The new Mechanical Philosophy (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Stuart Glennan

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780198848073

Categorías

Metafísica y ontología

The new Mechanical Philosophy (en Inglés)

Stuart Glennan (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The new Mechanical Philosophy (en Inglés)"

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.