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.

Christopher A. Rickels, Springer Nature

Stuart Glennan's The New Mechanical Philosophy is an impressive, first-rate achievement and a very welcome addition to the literature on what has come to be called the New Mechanical Philosophy (NMP)... [The book] is essential reading for anyone wanting to know what NMP is all about.

Dingmar van Eck, Metascience

The book is essential reading for anyone hoping to engage with contemporary mechanistic philosophy, for or against. It provides a helpful introduction to many of the key concepts, and it stakes out provocative claims that will no doubt fuel productive philosophical discussion of mechanisms for years to come.

Carl F. Craver, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Glennan's book is an ideal place to start your investigation of the New Mechanism. It has a bit of something for everyone. For those not at all familiar with the New Mechanism, the opening chapter situates this movement vis-à-vis recent trends in philosophy of science. ... This is a rich book, very readable, and definitely recommended. ... this will very likely be the go-to book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses about mechanism and mechanistic explanation for the foreseeable future.

Thomas W. Polger, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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.
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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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1: What is the New Mechanical Philosophy? 2: Mechanisms 3: Models, Mechanisms and How-Explanations 4: Mechanisms, Models and Kinds 5: Types of Mechanisms 6: Mechanisms and Causation 7: Production and Relevance 8: Explanation: Mechanistic and Otherwise
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The first book-length treatment to argue for a mechanistic approach across the sciences Explores themes across a wide range of disciplines, ranging from physics to history Accesible to both readers in philosophy and sciences
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Stuart Glennan is the Harry T. Ice Professor of Philosophy at Butler University, and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Glennan's research has centered on topics in the philosophy of science - especially causation, explanation, modelling and the concept of mechanism. He has also written on science education and on the relation between science and religion.
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The first book-length treatment to argue for a mechanistic approach across the sciences Explores themes across a wide range of disciplines, ranging from physics to history Accesible to both readers in philosophy and sciences
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198848073
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
428 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

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Biografisk notat

Stuart Glennan is the Harry T. Ice Professor of Philosophy at Butler University, and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Glennan's research has centered on topics in the philosophy of science - especially causation, explanation, modelling and the concept of mechanism. He has also written on science education and on the relation between science and religion.