Harvey was deeply and bitterly opposed to the mechanical philosophy of French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes as well as to any purely mechanical conception of the human body.
(see R. Martinelli, 2011) Despite his critique of psychophysical parallelism, Stumpf advocates, like Spinoza, a form of pantheism that is consistent with his deterministic and mechanical conception of nature.
He did the same during the brief revival of the so-called "vis viva controversy" triggered by du Châtelet's treatise, defending the empirical and mechanical conception of body and force against those who defended Leibniz's more metaphysical conception of the same thing.
One is invited to consider instead the alternative proposed by von Neumann's rationally coherent orthodox quantum mechanical conception.
The attacks made against pre-Enlightenment "magical thinking", and the mystical elements of Christianity, were given their foundation with Boyle's mechanical conception of the Universe.
Modern theoretical accounts of chemical bonding are quantum mechanical, but even contemporary conceptions of bonds owe a huge amount to the classical conception of bonds developed by G.N. Lewis at the very beginning of the 20th century.
The Rotating Biological Contactor (RBC) is used for both municipal and industrial wastewater treatment; however, the RBC has been plagued with mechanical deficiencies since its conception.
Thus, he offered a version of epistemic reduction in line with his conception of mechanical philosophy, which included a mixed reductionist/non-reductionist methodology and concomitant reservations about ontological reduction.
WA participated in the development of the mouse model of mechanical ventilation, participated in the conception of the project, and participated in the analysis and interpretation of the data.
In the earliest quantum mechanical models, something very much like the structural conception of bonding was preserved; electron density was, for the most part, localized between atomic centers and was responsible for holding molecules together.
