The New Mechanical Philosophy

ISBN: 9780198779711 出版年：2017 页码：279 Glennan, Stuart Oxford University Press

Natural and social scientists often characterize their work as a search for the mechanisms responsible for the phenomena they study. While this way of thinking about the nature of science has its origins in 17th century philosophy, contemporary philosophers of science have only recently begun to think again about mechanisms. The result has been an explosion of work on the nature of mechanisms, and their relation to causation, explanation, modeling and discovery that has come to be known as the New Mechanical Philosophy.