New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence and Reduction

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Title

New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence and Reduction

Subject

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
Philosophy of science
Machine learning

Description

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.

Creator

Cordovil, João L. (editor)
Santos, Gil (editor)
Vecchi, Davide (editor)

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133069

Publisher

Springer Nature

Date

2024

Contributor

Wahyuni

Rights

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6
ISBN
9783031469176, 9783031469169

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