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...

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Main Author:	Glennan, Stuart (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Science > Philosophy. Mechanism (Philosophy) Philosophy of nature. Mécanisme (Philosophie) Sciences > Philosophie. Philosophie de la nature. SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects. Science > Philosophy Electronic books.
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