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The new mechanical philosophy / Stuart Glennan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glennan, Stuart, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Mechanism (Philosophy).
- Philosophy of nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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 physical, life, and social sciences.
- 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
- Postscript
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-182474-7
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