Explore
New Mechanism
0 Ungluers have
Faved this Work
Login to Fave
This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non-trivial notion of emergence. Arguably, new mechanism has been particularly successful in making sense of scientific practice in the molecular life sciences. But what about other sciences? This book enlarges the context of analysis, addressing the issue of the putative compatibility between the current ways of conceiving new mechanism and actual scientific practices in quantum physics, chemistry, biochemistry, developmental biology and the cognitive sciences.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
This work has been downloaded 9 times via unglue.it ebook links.
- 9 - pdf (CC BY) at Unglue.it.
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- Computer science
- Computing & information technology
- Evo-Devo
- Humanities
- Machine learning
- Mathematics & science
- Mechanisms in chemistry
- Mechanisms of emergence
- Mechanistic explanation
- mechanistic models
- New mechanism
- Organisms need mechanisms
- Philosophy
- philosophy of science
- Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
- Science: general issues
- Structural realism
Links
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6Editions