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 physical, life, and social sciences.

• | Author: Stuart Glennan
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 279 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 0198779712
• | ISBN-13: 9780198779711