سعر ومواصفات The New Mechanical Philosophy Paperback
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The New Mechanical Philosophy Paperback by
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فى الإمارات هو
144 درهم
طرق الدفع المتاحة هى
دفع عند الاستلامبطاقة ائتمانيةالدفع الاليكترونى
تكلفة التوصيل هى 10 درهم, والتوصيل فى خلال 1-5 أيام
أول ظهور لهذا المنتج كان فى مارس 27, 2023
المواصفات الفنية
اللغة:
اللغة الإنجليزية
الناشر:
Oxford University Press, USA
الكاتب 1:
Stuart Glennan
عن المؤلف:
Stuart Glennan is the Harry T. Ice Professor of Philosophy at Butler University, and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Glennan's research has centered on topics in the philosophy of science - especially causation, explanation, modelling and the concept of mechanism. He has also written on science education and on the relation between science and religion.
وصف الكتاب:
The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science―one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing on an expanding literature on mechanisms in physical, life, and social sciences, Stuart Glennan offers an account of the nature of mechanisms and of the models used to represent them. A key quality of mechanisms is that they are particulars - located at different places and times, with no one just like another. The crux of the scientist's challenge is to balance the complexity and particularity of mechanisms with our need for representations of them that are abstract and general. This volume weaves together metaphysical and methodological questions about mechanisms. Metaphysically, it explores the implications of the mechanistic framework for our understanding of classical philosophical questions about the nature of objects, properties, processes, events, causal relations, natural kinds and laws of nature. Methodologically, the book explores how scientists build models to represent and understand phenomena and the mechanisms responsible for them. Using this account of representation, Glennan offers a scheme for characterizing the enormous diversity of things that scientists call mechanisms, and explores the scope and limits of mechanistic explanation.