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Tracing Pathways and Decomposing Mechanisms in Ecology
… by philosophers calling their movement the New Mechanist Philosophy, with some proponents even going as far to say that biology is fundamentally a science of mechanisms. This means that the activity of biologists is organized around the discovery, investigation, and understanding of mechanisms …
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A cybernetic model for the unified explanation of human behavior
<p>The mechanistic approach to the explanation of human behavior is as old as western philosophy itself, dating back to the materialistic theories of mind of the pre-Socratics. Despite its antiquity, however, mechanism has never gained undisputed ascendancy as a psychological model. The “mental” …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Although the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish is eclectic and uncustomary, it offers an important critique of contemporary scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural …