Table of Contents
Preface William C. Wimsatt
1. Introduction: Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophies Stuart Glennan and Phyllis Illari
Part 1: Historical Perspectives on Mechanisms
2. Mechanisms: Ancient Sources Tiberiu Popa
3. From the Mechanical Philosophy to Early Modern Mechanisms Sophie Roux
4. The Origins of the Reaction Mechanism William Goodwin
5. Mechanism, Organicism and Vitalism Garland E. Allen
6. Mechanisms and the Mental Marcin Milkowski
Part 2: The Nature of Mechanisms
7. Varieties of Mechanisms Stuart Glennan and Phyllis Illari
8. Mechanisms, Phenomena, and Functions Justin Garson
9. The Components and Boundaries of Mechanisms Marie I. Kaiser
10. Mechanisms and the Metaphysics of Causation Lucas Matthews and James Tabery
11. Mechanisms, Counterfactuals and Laws Stavros Ioannidis and Stathis Psillos
12. What Would Hume Say? Regularities, Laws, and Mechanisms Holly Anderson
13. Probability and Chance in Mechanisms Marshall Abrams
14. Mechanistic Levels, Reduction and Emergence Mark Povich and Carl F. Craver
15. Mechanisms and Natural Kinds Emma Tobin
Part 3: Mechanisms and the Philosophy of Science
16. Mechanistic Explanation and its Limits Marta Halina
17. Models of Mechanisms John Matthewson
18. Explaining Visually: Mechanism Diagrams Adele Abrahamsen, Benjamin Sheredos, and William Bechtel
19. Strategies for Discovering Mechanisms Lindley Darden
20. Mechanisms and Dynamical Systems David Michael Kaplan
Part 4: Disciplinary Perspectives on Mechanisms
21. Mechanisms in Physics Meinard Kuhlmann
22. Mechanisms in Evolutionary Biology Lane DesAutels
23. Mechanisms in Molecular Biology Tudor M. Baetu
24. Mechanisms and Biomedicine Brendan Clarke and Federica Russo
25. Developmental Mechanisms Alan C. Love
26. Mechanisms in Ecology Viorel Pâslaru
27. Systems Biology and Mechanistic Explanation Ingo Brigandt, Sara Green, and Maureen A. O’Malley
28. Mechanistic Explanation in Neuroscience Catherine Stinson and Jacqueline Sullivan
29. Mechanisms in Cognitive Science Carlos Zednik
30. Social Mechanisms Petri Ylikoski
31. Disaggregating Historical Explanation: The Move to Social Mechanisms Daniel Little
32. Mechanisms in Economics Caterina Marchionni
33. Computational Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini
34. Mechanisms and Engineering Science Dingmar van Eck.
Index