Stuart Glennan has been producing now for 2 decades major contributions to the concepts of mechanism and mechanistic explanation in philosophy of science. It might be fair to say that, together with Bill Bechtel, Lindley Darden, and Carl Craver he has helped to elaborate a view of scientific explanation that now shapes the debates on explanation in our discipline. It is therefore a notable event in the history of ‘mechanism’ in philosophy of sciencewhenGlennanwrites awhole book to explain his conception, defends it against other understandings of mechanism, and forges, on this basis, a joint account of what ‘explain’means and of how the world should be, so that explanation is possible. Thus, The NewMechanical Philosophy is an important book both for philosophers interested in explanation and for metaphysicians eager to make sense of causation, laws, kinds, and other metaphysical concepts. This essay review starts by presenting some of the book’s major claims and arguments, emphasizing aspects that struck me as original with respect to what has already been published by Glennan and others in the context of mechanical philosophy. The last part will engage more precisely with some novel contributions made by the book. Part of the strength and importance of the book lies in the attempt to make “mechanism” into a central concept tying epistemology of science

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斯图尔特·格伦南评论新机械哲学

斯图尔特·格伦南 (Stuart Glennan) 近 2 年来一直对科学哲学中的机制和机械解释的概念做出重大贡献。可以公平地说，他与比尔·贝克特尔、林德利·达登和卡尔·克雷弗一起帮助阐述了一种科学解释的观点，这种观点现在塑造了我们学科中关于解释的辩论。因此，当格伦南写了一整本书来解释他的概念，捍卫它反对其他对机制的理解，并在此基础上对“解释”的含义和“解释”的含义做出联合说明时，这是科学哲学“机制”史上的一个值得注意的事件。世界应该是怎样的，所以这个解释是可能的。因此，《新机械哲学》对于对解释感兴趣的哲学家和渴望理解因果关系的形而上学家都是一本重要的书，规律、种类和其他形而上学概念。这篇论文评论首先介绍了该书的一些主要主张和论点，强调了与 Glennan 和其他人在机械哲学背景下已发表的内容相比，令我印象深刻的方面。最后一部分将更准确地介绍本书的一些新颖贡献。这本书的部分力量和重要性在于试图将“机制”变成一个与科学认识论联系在一起的核心概念 最后一部分将更准确地介绍本书的一些新颖贡献。这本书的部分力量和重要性在于试图将“机制”变成一个与科学认识论联系在一起的核心概念 最后一部分将更准确地介绍本书的一些新颖贡献。这本书的部分力量和重要性在于试图将“机制”变成一个与科学认识论联系在一起的核心概念