Sentence examples for mechanistic conception from inspiring English sources
He was also deeply unsettled by Newtonian physics' mechanistic conception of the universe and by the Lockean psychology of sensation that he had learned at Harvard.
Modern physics, while leaving mechanistic explanations of certain natural phenomena intact, shattered the overall mechanistic conception of nature.
In the case of Schelling and Bergson it was because they remained imprisoned by the mechanistic conception of sequential time in which past, present and future move in the one direction.
Especially interesting about the pamphlet is the essentially classical, even Platonic, conception of reason that Jacobi advances there, in defence, however, of a theory of individual liberalism which, in the eighteenth-century, was being defended rather on the basis of quite an opposite mechanistic conception of rationality.
Gibson, one of the founders of this movement, made room for this concept by arguing against the mechanistic conceptions in psychology.
9. Emergence of a 'post-materialist' scientific paradigm and worldview which recognizes that the cutting-edge insights of physics and biology undermine traditional, mechanistic conceptions of the natural order, pointing to a more holistic understanding of life and nature.
Mechanistic conceptions of the layer formation are presented and supported by analytical determination of some reaction intermediates.
They also summarize mechanistic conceptions of life, various misreadings of the paper, and the development of biophysics.
As Tsasis et al 25 suggest, there is 'a growing movement away from mechanistic conceptions of healthcare management and delivery, and an increasing recognition of the value of understanding integration as an agent-based, nonlinear, emergent, self-organising and coevolving phenomenon'.
This is further exacerbated by the fact that many dissemination practices remain based on "a mechanistic, linear conception of dissemination as a process of getting the word out" [ 2].
"Here on Earth" begins with the deepest biological context, as Flannery pits what he sees as the mechanistic, soulless conceptions of Charles Darwin against the more holistic, even hopeful, vision of Alfred Russel Wallace, the English naturalist who discovered evolution independently.
