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The new mechanical philosophy /
This volume argues for a new image of science that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, casting the work of science as an effort to understand those mechanisms. Glennan offers an account of the nature of mechanisms and of the models used to represent them in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Postscript
- References
- Index.