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Author Glennan, Stuart, author.

Title The new mechanical philosophy / Stuart Glennan.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version : 9780198779711
ISBN 9780191824746 (electronic book)
0191824747 (electronic book)
9780191085284 (electronic book)
0191085286 (electronic book)
9780198779711
0198779712