The Mechanical World The Metaphysical Commitments of the New Mechanistic Approach /

• Main Author: Krickel, Beate (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Brain and Mind, 13
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Systems biology.; Neurosciences.; Metaphysics.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Systems Biology.; Personality and Social Psychology.

This monograph examines the metaphysical commitments of the new mechanistic philosophy, a way of thinking that has returned to center stage. It challenges a variant of reductionism with regard to higher-level phenomena, which has crystallized as a default position among these so-called New Mechanist...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. What is a mechanism?
• Chapter 3. What are the components of mechanisms?
• Chapter 4. Phenomena in the Life Sciences
• Chapter 5. Relations between mechanisms and phenomena
• Chapter 6. Summary and conclusions.