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  title info:
    title: Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond
  name:
    name part: Falkenburg, Brigitte.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Schiemann, Gregor.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 220 p. 6 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This volume offers a broad, philosophical discussion on mechanical explanations. Coverage ranges from historical approaches and general questions to physics and higher-level sciences . The contributors also consider the topics of complexity, emergence, and reduction. Mechanistic explanations detail how certain properties of a whole stem from the causal activities of its parts. This kind of explanation is in particular employed in explanatory models of the behavior of complex systems. Often used in biology and neuroscience, mechanistic explanation models have been often overlooked in the philosophy of physics. The authors correct this surprising neglect. They trace these models back to their origins in physics. The papers present a comprehensive historical, methodological, and problem-oriented investigation. The contributors also investigate the conditions for using models of mechanistic explanations in physics. The last papers make the bridge from physics to economics, the theory of complex systems and computer science . This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers with an interest in the philosophy of science, scientific explanation, complex systems, models of explanation in physics higher level sciences, and causal mechanisms in science.
  table of contents: Part I: INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Part II: HISTORICAL APPROACHES -- Chpater 1: Stathis Psillos: Mechanisms, Then and Now -- Chapter 2: Brigitte Falkenburg: Mechanistic Explanations: History, Scope, and Limitations -- Chapter 3: Gregor Schiemann: Old and New Mechanistic Explanations -- Part III: GENERAL QUESTIONS -- Chapter 4: Michel Ghins: Mechanistic Explanation: An Extension and a Defence -- Chapter 5: Marco Buzzoni: Multilevel Reality and Mechanistic Explanations -- Chapter 6: Jan Faye: Causal Mechanism, Complexity, and the Environment -- Chapter 7: Paul Weingartner: Is Every Causal Explanation a Mechanistic Explanation? -- Chapter 8: Hans Lenk: About the New Mechanistical Turn of Causal Epistemology -- Part IV: MECHANISMS IN PHYSICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- Chapter 9: Dennis Dieks: Explanation and Mechanisms in Physics -- Chapter 10: Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu: Explanation, the Progress of Physical Theories, and Computer Simulations -- Chapter 11: Itala M. Loffredo D'Ottaviano: Autonomous Action in Complex Mechanical Systems: A Real Dilemma? -- Chapter 12: Vinzenco Fano: Computation and Reality.
  note: edited by Brigitte Falkenburg, Gregor Schiemann.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics, Applied
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Computer science-Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Classical Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics of Computing
  classification: QA8-10.4
  classification: 510.1
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      title: European Studies in Philosophy of Science, 11
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