portada Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? (en Inglés)

Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Stavros Ioannidis

Stathis Psillos

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

289

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781009011495

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad
Tradiciones filosóficas y escuelas de pensamiento

Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? (en Inglés)

Stavros Ioannidis (Autor) · Stathis Psillos (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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In recent years what has come to be called the 'New Mechanism' has emerged as a framework for thinking about the philosophical assumptions underlying many areas of science, especially in sciences such as biology, neuroscience, and psychology. This book offers a fresh look at the role of mechanisms, by situating novel analyses of central philosophical issues related to mechanisms within a rich historical perspective of the concept of mechanism as well as detailed case studies of biological mechanisms (such as apoptosis). It develops a new position, Methodological Mechanism, according to which mechanisms are to be viewed as causal pathways that are theoretically described and are underpinned by networks of difference-making relations. In contrast to metaphysically inflated accounts, this study characterises mechanism as a concept-in-use in science that is deflationary and metaphysically neutral, but still methodologically useful and central to scientific practice.