Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics?

ISBN-13: 9781316519905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 250 str.

Greece) Psillos Stathis (University of Athens

Opis

Questions central tenets of the current philosophical consensus about mechanisms and develops the novel alternative of Methodological Mechanism.

Recenzje

'Ioannidis and Psillos provide comprehensive arguments for taking a deflationary or metaphysically neutral approach to understanding mechanism, especially in biology … Highly recommended.' J. A. Hewlett, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Ideas of Mechanism: 1. Mechanisms, Then and Now; 2: Extending Mechanism Beyond the two 'Most Catholic Principles of Bodies; Part II. Causation and Mechanism: 3. Mechanisms in Scientific Practice: the Case of Apoptosis; 4. Mechanisms as Causal Pathways; 5: Mechanisms, Causation and Laws; 6: Against Activities; 7: Whither Counterfactuals?; Part III. Beyond New Mechanism: 8. Constitution vs Causation; 9. Multilevel Mechanistic Explanation; 10: Methodological Mechanism.