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BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology
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The Evolution of Explanation
In aristotelean times, an nation was something very deep. The idea of finding the ultimate cause and the essence of things was criticised from the seventeenth century onwards. And we have to find special events that connect to each other in time, and that connects yo to the process you want to explain. This is called a mechanism. Mechanism comes from essentially from renede cart ander, also robert boyle,. All this idea that you have to find something like cogs and wheels, a moving across space, that explain, by collisions, thethe movement of something else. Then came newton. For newton, this kind of explanation was no longer a something that he
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