Causes, Explanations, and Mechanisms

Dedication.- List of Abbreviations.- Part I: Causes and Mechanisms: A Historical and Theoretical Background.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Mechanical Philosophies and Mechanical Worldviews.- Chapter 3. Hume, Mach, and Russell on Causation.- Chapter 4. Various Perspectives on Causation and Causal Explanation and Their Impact on the New Mechanical Philosophy.- Part II: Mechanisms: An Ontological and Epistemological Perspective.- Chapter 5. What Are the New Mechanists Pluralistic About?.- Chapter 6. Ontic or Epistemic Conception of Explanation: A Misleading Distinction?.- Part III: Mechanisms: Various Explanatory Contexts.- Chapter 7. The New Mechanists on the Explanatory Role of Scientific Models: The Case of the Hodgkin–Huxley Model.- Chapter 8. An Ontic-Epistemic Approach to Explanatory Problems in Biology.- Chapter 9. Feasibility of the Mechanistic Explanation in the Case of Near-Death Experiences: Nothing but a Reductionism?.- Chapter 10. Defective Idealizations and Deeply Idealized Mechanisms.- Chapter 11. Conclusions.- Index.

• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.05.2026
• Autor/Autorin: Michal Oleksowicz
• Reihe: Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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