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oapen-20.500.12657-869372024-01-15T17:35:42Z New Mechanism Cordovil, João L. Santos, Gil Vecchi, Davide Evo-devo Structural realism New mechanism Mechanistic explanation Mechanistic models Organisms need mechanisms Mechanisms of emergence Mechanisms in chemistry bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence::UYQM Machine learning This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non-trivial notion of emergence. Arguably, new mechanism has been particularly successful in making sense of scientific practice in the molecular life sciences. But what about other sciences? This book enlarges the context of analysis, addressing the issue of the putative compatibility between the current ways of conceiving new mechanism and actual scientific practices in quantum physics, chemistry, biochemistry, developmental biology and the cognitive sciences. 2024-01-15T16:46:28Z 2024-01-15T16:46:28Z 2024 book ONIX_20240115_9783031469176_47 9783031469176 9783031469169 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86937 eng History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-46917-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-46917-6 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6 10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 cd6d1af1-43a7-436d-88de-a53b1498349c 9783031469176 9783031469169 Springer International Publishing 35 272 Cham [...] Centro Interdisciplinar de Performance Humana, Universidade de Lisboa Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Human Performance open access
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This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non-trivial notion of emergence. Arguably, new mechanism has been particularly successful in making sense of scientific practice in the molecular life sciences. But what about other sciences? This book enlarges the context of analysis, addressing the issue of the putative compatibility between the current ways of conceiving new mechanism and actual scientific practices in quantum physics, chemistry, biochemistry, developmental biology and the cognitive sciences.
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