The New Mechanical Philosophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 10, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780198779711
Description: 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.