Beate Krickel: The Mechanical World | Buch

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Cover: 9783030036287 | The Mechanical World | Beate Krickel | Buch | Englisch | 2019

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Beschreibung

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 Mechanists. Furthermore, it opposes those philosophers who reject the possibility of interlevel causation.

Contemporary philosophers believe that the explanation of scientific phenomena requires the discovery of relevant mechanisms. As a result, new mechanists are, in the main, concerned solely with epistemological questions. But, the author argues, their most central claims rely on metaphysical assumptions. Thus, they must also take into account metaphysics, a system of thought concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world around it. This branch of philosophy does indeed matter to the empirical sciences.

The chapters investigate the nature of mechanisms, their components, and the ways in which they can bring about different phenomena. In addition, the author develops a novel account of causation in terms of activities.

The analysis provides the basis for many further research projects on mechanisms and their relations to, for example, the mind-body problem, realization, multiple realization, natural kinds, causation, laws of nature, counterfactuals, and scientific levels.

Über den Autor

Beate Krickel is an Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department II of Ruhr-University Bochum. She worked as a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin where she did her PhD. She works on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics of mind and cognitive science and published articles in renowned journals.

Zusammenfassung

Provides a metaphysical and conceptual analysis of the new mechanistic thinking

Shows that philosophy of science needs not only pay attention to actual science but also to metaphysics

Details how metaphysics matters to the empirical sciences

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	176
Reihe:	Studies in Brain and Mind
Inhalt:	x 163 S. 21 s/w Illustr. 163 p. 21 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030036287
ISBN-10:	3030036286
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-030-03628-7
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Krickel, Beate
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Studies in Brain and Mind
Maße:	241 x 160 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Beate Krickel
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.01.2019
Gewicht:	0,468 kg

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