Description:
This volume explores issues in the philosophy of science relating to biology and economics. It interrogates the concepts of mechanism and causality in these disciplines and draws careful juxtapositions between philosophical apparatus and scientific practice.
Review Quotes:
From the reviews:
"Essays provides both a critical reappraisal of how far we've come, and an insight into future lines of inquiry. ... to those with interests in general philosophy of science, and those with interests in interdisciplinary links among the special sciences. ... I can strongly recommend it. Each of these papers is self-contained, but together they constitute intriguingly contrasting treatments of a variety of issues to do with causation, explanation, and the roles of mechanistic understanding in economics and biology." (Anya Plutynski, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 3 (23), 2013)