AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE OF MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY

By F. MAZIM

CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION: MECHANISMS AND MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHIES PART I HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MECHANISMS 2 MECHANISMS: ANCIENT SOURCES 3 FROM THE MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY TO EARLY MODERN MECHANISMS 4 THE ORIGINS OF THE REACTION MECHANISM 5 MECHANISM, ORGANICISM, AND VITALISM 6 MECHANISMS AND THE MENTAL PART II THE NATURE OF MECHANISMS 7 VARIETIES OF MECHANISMS 8 MECHANISMS, PHENOMENA, AND FUNCTIONS 9 THE COMPONENTS AND BOUNDARIES OF MECHANISMS 10 MECHANISMS AND THE METAPHYSICS OF CAUSATION 11 MECHANISMS, COUNTERFACTUALS, AND LAWS 12 WHAT WOULD HUME SAY? REGULARITIES, LAWS, AND MECHANISMS 13 PROBABILITY AND CHANCE IN MECHANISMS 14 MECHANISTIC LEVELS, REDUCTION, AND EMERGENCE 15 MECHANISMS AND NATURAL KINDS PART III MECHANISMS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 16 MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION AND ITS LIMITS 17 MODELS OF MECHANISMS 18 EXPLAINING VISUALLY USING MECHANISM DIAGRAMS 19 STRATEGIES FOR DISCOVERING MECHANISMS 20 MECHANISMS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS PART IV DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON MECHANISMS 21 MECHANISMS IN PHYSICS 22 MECHANISMS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 23 MECHANISMS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 24 MECHANISMS AND BIOMEDICINE 25 DEVELOPMENTAL MECHANISMS 26 MECHANISMS IN ECOLOGY 27 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION 28 MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION IN NEUROSCIENCE 29 MECHANISMS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE 30 SOCIAL MECHANISMS 31 DISAGGREGATING HISTORICAL EXPLANATION: THE MOVE TO SOCIAL MECHANISMS 32 MECHANISMS IN ECONOMICS 33 COMPUTATIONAL MECHANISMS 34 MECHANISMS AND ENGINEERING SCIENCE