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Seventeenth-Century Mechanism:An Alternative Framework for Reductionism
Mechanism Reductionism Explanation Descartes Boyle Corpuscularism
2016/6/15
The consensus view in philosophy of science is that reductionism is dead. One reason for this is that the deductive nomological (DN) model of explanation, on which classical reductionism depends, is w...
Eating Goldstone bosons in a phase transition:A critical review of Lyre's analysis of the Higgs mechanism
gauge transformations Higgs mechanism representation symmetry
2016/5/31
In this note, I briefly review Lyre’s (2008) analysis and interpretation of the Higgs mechanism. Contrary to Lyre, I maintain that, on the proper understanding of the term, the Higgs mechanism r...
A philosophical look at the Higgs mechanism
Higgs mechanism symmetry breaking gauge symmetries quantum field theory
2016/5/30
On the occasion of the recent experimental detection of a Higgs-type particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the paper reviews philosophical aspects of the Higgs mechanism as the presentl...
Ontological Tensions in 16th and 17th Century Chemistry: Between Mechanism and Vitalism
Chemical Revolution alchemy history of chemistry chemical philosophy
2009/9/11
The 16th and 17th centuries marked a period of transition from the vitalistic ontology that had dominated Renaissance natural philosophy to the Early Modern mechanistic paradigm endorsed by, among oth...
Ontological Tensions in 16th and 17th Century Chemistry: Between Mechanism and Vitalism
Chemical Revolution, alchemy, history of chemistry, chemical philosophy, Paracelsus, Basso, van Helmont, Boyle, vitalism, mechanism, corpuscularian philosophy, corpuscularianism, history of chemical philosophy, 16th century chemical philosophy, 16th century chemistry, 17th century chemical philosophy, 17th century chemistry
2011/9/7
The 16th and 17th centuries marked a period of transition from the vitalistic ontology that had dominated Renaissance natural philosophy to the Early Modern mechanistic paradigm endorsed by, among oth...
Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism
activity causation explanation invariance interaction
2008/4/21
Stuart Glennan, and the team of Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden and Carl Craver have recently provided two accounts of the concept of a mechanism. The main difference between these two versions rests o...
The latest computerized reconstruction of the “Antikythera mechanism”
reveals a striking similarity to the model of the universe of
Anaximander of Miletus.
Mechanism-as-activity and the threat of polygenic effects
causation mechanism Machamer activities explanation
2008/4/1
Polygenic effects have more than one cause. They testify to the fact that several causal contributors are sometimes simultaneously involved in causation. The importance of polygenic causation was noti...
Mechanism-as-activity and the threat of polygenic effects
causation mechanism Machamer activities explanation
2011/9/7
Polygenic effects have more than one cause. They testify to the fact that several causal contributors are sometimes simultaneously involved in causation. The importance of polygenic causation was noti...