Beyond Mechanism
Henning, Brian G. / Scarfe, Adam
It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang "in the air" (Bowler, 1983, 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers togethe...
