The New Mechanical Philosophy

Autor

Stuart Glennan

Editura

Oxford University Press

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

288

ISBN

9780198779711

Categorii

In Limbi Străine Stiinte Matematica Si Stiinte Stiinta Generala Filozofia Stiintei

Descriere

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