(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus
the mechanistic explanation of the universe.
A mechanistic explanation of the PDO, along the lines of the ENSO mechanism, has not been put forward, by the way.
The quantitative and
mechanistic explanation of these CO2 variations remains one of the major unsolved questions in climate research.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
A preference for atomicity (
explanation in terms
of amino and nucleic acids) prescribes the method for molecular biology; and a persistent materialism hovers over the essentially anti-
mechanistic physics
of this century.
And in principle, the theory held, all events can be given this type
of mechanistic causal
explanation.
However, most important for our immediate purposes, the view that there are limitations on both
mechanistic and teleological causal
explanations of creative events is expressed in Peirce's own writings.
This is not because such words are supposed to have some kind
of vitalistic tinge which will redeem what we have to say from apparent
mechanistic suggestions, but because they are in fact required for any genuine understanding
of the world and any sound
explanation of how things come to be.
Since the goal
of this paper is to describe a
mechanistic model
of explanation, the connection between these logical notions and Turing machines will allow us to establish the relationship between the explanatory model and the image
of the machine.
«This study shows, that there is a
mechanistic explanation for why fish may move, faced with a choice, and now we have a way
of testing it,» Johansen said.
A new study published in Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences and led by researchers from the University
of Pennsylvania now offers the first
mechanistic explanation for why this is the case.
One eight - month IER trial in obesity - prone rats reported an increase in theproduction
of reactive oxygen species (ROS), with no clear
mechanistic explanations.26 Another trial, this time over six months, showed that IER - fed rats displayed marked reductions in diastolic compliance and cardiac reserve due to observed reductions in cardiomyocyte size and increased myocardial fibrosis.23 No human trials to date have reported any adverse effects on cardiovascular health during long - term IER.
Psychiatry has been seeking to scientifically substantiate itself for the better part
of a century, and we have all fallen prey to the allure
of the biological
explanation, the organic cause, the
mechanistic descriptor for a given pathology.
Scientifically, some sort
of explanation as to the sequence
of events is expected at the
mechanistic levels
of eg physics, chemistry or biology.
We don't know that for a fact in the real data, but to believe that they do on the basis
of thinking you see such patterns (and with no reasonable
mechanistic explanation) is sort
of like continuing to believe Yuri Geller can bend spoons with his mind after James Randi has clearly demonstrated how he can just as convincingly bend spoons using slight -
of - hand.
«We're providing
mechanistic explanations for how those dramatic sorts
of rates
of ice sheet retreat could actually happen,» DeConto told me, «but we don't need [Hansen's] feedback [to reach similar conclusions.]»