In her paper Impacts of Extreme Weather and Climate on Terrestrial Biota2 Parmesan wrote, «Here, evidence is brought forward that extreme weather events can be implicated
as mechanistic drivers of broad ecological responses to climatic trends.
The current climate paradigm is as linear and
as mechanistic as that pool table.
Otherwise your efforts can come off
as mechanistic or uninspired, and you'll eventually burn out.
As the mechanistic studies suggest that ER - α and Notch are central in mediating the unfavourable hypoxic CSC response in ER - α — positive breast cancer, they may offer an attractive combination treatment approach, which would consist of ER - α or Notch inhibitors combined with antiangiogenic drugs.
Whitehead Institute scientists have at last answered the long - standing question of how the growth - regulating pathway known
as mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) detects the presence of the amino acid leucine — itself a key player in modulating muscle growth, appetite, and insulin secretion.
Avatars often have automaton - like, robotic characteristics such
as mechanistic inertness, rigidity and a lack of emotion and warmth.
It is instructive in this regard to cite Bergson's letter to C. Lloyd Morgan of November 21, 1912, expressing his belief that science did not have to remain
as mechanistic as it was in their time.21
On the other hand it presented the case for the modern worldview
as mechanistic and bound inevitably to progress on the wings of science.
The dominant image of the local church, the one that gives Reed's and Evans's findings much of their coherence and argument, is that of the congregation
as a mechanistic field of traceable forces.
Finally, insofar
as a mechanistic understanding of nature and a pragmatic conception of truth are the correlates of the abstract individual and the liberal notion of freedom as power, even a Newtonian understanding of nature, reason, and freedom will eventually destroy the foundations for the rationality of natural law, as reason is reduced to the calculation of forces and law becomes an extrinsic imposition.
What nominalism called in question is the universal, those principles and causes larger than the mechanism of nature or ideas generated out of nature seen
as mechanistic by man.
Not exact matches
It can not be explained in
mechanistic or more broadly deterministic terms
as the outcome of the causality of the past.
(4) Descriptions of evolutionary mechanisms also share in the
mechanistic and materialistic biases of science — which easily becomes translated into materialism
as a world view.
Being
mechanistic, modern science is also historicist: It argues that a complete description of the efficient and material causal history of an entity is a complete explanation of the entity itself» in other words, that an understanding of how something came to be is the same
as understanding what it is.
The convergence model represents human communication
as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way
mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»
It is,
as George Herbert Mead has said, a way of «taking time seriously «17 to the point that no definable space in the
mechanistic sense can be designated, or fixed, except
as a supposition for purposes which require one to arrest the process, which is to assume that time does not matter or that it does not exist.
Instead of a
mechanistic view of the universe, the process - relational understanding is holistic and ecological, seeing the world
as dynamic, creative, throbbing, pulsating with energy, interrelated and interdependent.
This abandonment of the intellectual task of understanding the world is
as detrimental to society
as was the
mechanistic view that it partly replaced.
When human beings, or some human beings, are treated
as part of this
mechanistic world, they are terribly exploited.
A
mechanistic view of nature presupposed causes
as necessary relations.
Corpuscular societies consisting of low — level occasions, such
as rocks and billiard balls, display little originality, thereby providing ideal instances of efficient causality for
mechanistic science.
On the other hand, areas of research such
as biology and psychology are subjected to a
mechanistic interpretation which tends to deprive them of their specificity
as sciences.
On the one hand, certain zones of experience are viewed
as impermeable to
mechanistic explanation (poetry or religious inspiration, for example) and are thus simply excluded from relevance.
Rolston laments that many influenced by the
mechanistic worldview of industrial civilizations think of nonhuman nature
as something devoid of value until assigned importance by human beings.
As with Murray and those who insist that the founders «built better than they knew,» what the founders may have meant is less significant than what they actually gave us and how that gift was destined to be received in an emerging culture infused with voluntaristic, nominalist, and
mechanistic assumptions about God and nature.
I did not understand him to be equating Freudian therapy with modern neuroscience; I thought, rather, that he took his own distaste for what he sees
as certain mystifications in the former
as a point de départ for reflections on a deterministic and
mechanistic philosophy he finds even more distasteful.
The individualistic,
mechanistic understanding of psychology we can now see
as flawed; our freedom is more socially or politically or Historically conditioned than our Founders thought.
He rejects metaphysical idealism which denies the validity of the material aspects of reality, just
as he rejects dialectical materialism in its totally
mechanistic form,
as it denies the spiritual aspects of reality.
As opposed to ID / creationism, there is
mechanistic evidence supporting plausible routes for abiogenesis.
Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man
as against the tendency to submerge man in a
mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.
There is now a growing realization that science,
as such, does not require a
mechanistic worldview.
The
mechanistic view conceived of reality
as consisting in the least common denominator — a non-living, non-valuing and non-mental particle.
An over-arching reason for experimenting with process philosophy
as a contribution to feminist construction of a new view of relations is that it provides a cosmology radically different from dominant
mechanistic and patriarchal world views.
When matter is regarded
as extensity, the
mechanistic model fails.
(11) The
mechanistic metaphor causes Westerners to regard cultures that live on the basis of organic metaphors
as «ignorant and confused.»
In the dominant
mechanistic view, the information stored in a DNA molecule was seen
as totally determinative of the future development of the organism.
In a molecule, the degree of self - creation and self - determination may be quite rudimentary, even negligible; a
mechanistic molecular biologist might argue that this can be explained (away)
as the defective working of totally deterministic systems.
Indeed,
as Harvey Sindima's essay in this book attests,
mechanistic views have contributed to the threatened destruction of the earth not only in the West but also in Africa.
Newton's system of the universe,
as it has been handed down to us, is atomistic and
mechanistic.
It was Descartes who later transformed the notion of circulation into a mechanical system of pumps and pipes and used it
as a cornerstone for his
mechanistic philosophy.
The conception of organism
as fundamental for nature involves a radical break with a
mechanistic or substance concept of nature.
He was not beholden at all to the
mechanistic tradition of early Greek writers such
as Democritus.
Or,
as Merchant (1980) puts it: «As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105
as Merchant (1980) puts it: «
As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105
As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century
mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105).
As a biologist who was presented with a
mechanistic, substance image of reality, the author found that process theology lifted the richness of human experience to a level that gave him a new perspective of care for all creation.
But this next chapter will make no sense at all unless we have grasped the distinction between the world
as it appears on the one hand outwardly and
as revealed by
mechanistic science, and on the other hand the world that is hidden beneath appearances but is
as real.
The processes of nature are regarded by the
mechanistic view
as being a relation of cause and effect, which is a relation of equivalence, energy and momentum remaining constant; causality implies quantitative equivalence.
In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature,
as well
as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals
as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a
mechanistic narrative that,
as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior
as well.
In the conception of the physical
as «acting,» on the other hand, change of other kinds in addition to locomotive change are admitted, so that a
mechanistic analysis must accordingly be only of an aspect of physical acting, which means that since it leaves out of account other aspects or features of change or motion, it is an abstraction.
In terms of the physical
as «matter,» the biological entities could, however, not be fundamentally different in nature from their material constituents; that is, biological entities are intelligible purely in terms of their chemical constituents, which in turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely
mechanistic terms.
Needless to say our more
mechanistic colleagues regarded these
as somewhat aberrant, if not bizarre, activities!