Mechanical World

Beate Krickel is an Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department II of Ruhr-University Bochum. She worked as a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin where she did her PhD. She works on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics of mind and cognitive science and published articles in renowned journals.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is a mechanism?.- Chapter 3. What are the components of mechanisms?.- Chapter 4. Phenomena in the Life Sciences.- Chapter 5. Relations between mechanisms and phenomena.- Chapter 6. Summary and conclusions.

“The Mechanical World is a welcome addition to the new mechanistic philosophy. … The Mechanical World is an intellectually challenging book offering a particularly clear and rigorous discussion of some very important issues in contemporary philosophy of science. I am convinced philosophers and philosophically minded scientists will greatly enjoy and appreciate it.” (Tudor Baetu, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 41 (4), 2019)