The New Mechanical Philosophy

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017)
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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.

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Q175.G584 2017

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9780198779711   0198848072   0198779712   9780191824746
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