The New Mechanical Philosophy

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The New Mechanical Philosophy

Author	: Stuart Glennan
File Size	: 50,5 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 04 May 2024
ISBN	: 9780198779711
Pages	: 279 pages

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The New Mechanical Philosophy by Stuart Glennan Book PDF 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.

The New Mechanical Philosophy by Stuart Glennan

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The New Mechanical Philosophy by Stuart Glennan

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

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The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy by Stuart Glennan,Phyllis Illari

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms. Despite this fact, for much of the twentieth century philosophical discussions of the nature of mechanisms remained outside philosophy of science. The Routledge

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Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion by Klaas van Berkel

"Historians of science and the philosophy of science find the substance and stance of Isaac Beeckman's thought highly interesting, for it represented an early attempt to develop a comprehensive picture of the world by means of mechanistic theory, that is, forces acting upon one another. Besides possibly influencing Descartes, this

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A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison,James Watt

Download or read online A System of Mechanical Philosophy written by John Robison,James Watt, published by Unknown which was released on 1822. Get A System of Mechanical Philosophy Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle.

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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers by David S. Sytsma

Richard Baxter, one of the 17th century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this work, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and

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The Mechanical World by Beate Krickel

This monograph examines the metaphysical commitments of the new mechanistic philosophy, a way of thinking that has returned to center stage. It challenges a variant of reductionism with regard to higher-level phenomena, which has crystallized as a default position among these so-called New Mechanists. Furthermore, it opposes those philosophers who

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Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy by Margaret J. Osler

The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world.

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