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Author:   Michał Oleksowicz
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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9783032192516

ISBN 10:   303219251
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   27 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Dedication.- List of Abbreviations.- Part I: Causes and Mechanisms: A Historical and Theoretical Background.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Mechanical Philosophies and Mechanical Worldviews.- Chapter 3. Hume, Mach, and Russell on Causation.- Chapter 4. Various Perspectives on Causation and Causal Explanation and Their Impact on the New Mechanical Philosophy.- Part II: Mechanisms: An Ontological and Epistemological Perspective.- Chapter 5. What Are the New Mechanists Pluralistic About?.- Chapter 6. Ontic or Epistemic Conception of Explanation: A Misleading Distinction?.- Part III: Mechanisms: Various Explanatory Contexts.- Chapter 7. The New Mechanists on the Explanatory Role of Scientific Models: The Case of the Hodgkin–Huxley Model.- Chapter 8. An Ontic-Epistemic Approach to Explanatory Problems in Biology.- Chapter 9. Feasibility of the Mechanistic Explanation in the Case of Near-Death Experiences: Nothing but a Reductionism?.- Chapter 10. Defective Idealizations and Deeply Idealized Mechanisms.- Chapter 11. Conclusions.- Index.

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Michał Oleksowicz is a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Institute of Philosophy, Department of Logic) at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. From 2022–2025 he has been a board member of the Polish Association for Logic and Philosophy of Science. From 2022–2024, he was the principal investigator of the research project New Mechanicism and theology (2021/41/N/HS1/01338), funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. Currently, he is the principal investigator (2024–2027) of the project Philosophical-logical foundations of mechanistic causation (2024/52/C/HS1/00179), funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. The editor of the volume Hypotheses in Science, part of the book series Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 536). His main research interests are: philosophical logic, philosophical aspects of causation and causal explanations, especially mechanistic explanation and its application to various explanatory contexts.

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