Laws and Mechanisms in The Human Sciences
According to an influential epistemological tradition, science explains phenomena on the basis of laws, but the last two decades have witnessed a neo-mechanistic movement that emphasizes the fundamental role of mechanism-based explanations in science, which have the virtue of opening the “black box”...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2018-0004 |