Stavros Ioannidis, Stathis Psillos

Mechanisms in Science (eBook, PDF)

Method or Metaphysics?

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009022682
• Artikelnr.: 70909068

Autorenporträt

Stavros Ioannidis is Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is principal investigator of the project MECHANISM, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

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.