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work_p6lau7nnwjccjamwmhnf7zuaaa	Kari L. Theurer	Seventeenth-Century Mechanism: An Alternative Framework for Reductionism	2013	17	.pdf	application/pdf	5075	408	52	But this runs counter to the contemporary mechanists' claim that their view provides a distinct alternative to reductionism. to reductionism, as evidenced by the historical roots of the contemporary mechanist program: namely, in the mechanical philosophy of Descartes, Boyle, and others. Mechanistic explanations do not appeal to the deductive relationships between laws that classical reduction requires. explanation, a Kemeny-Oppenheim reduction requires reducing a higher-level phenomenon to a Craver (2007) echoes this point, noting that some philosophers and scientists use the term 'reduction' to refer to the explanation of a phenomenon by its mechanism. Treatise on Man. In contrast, New Mechanism has functioned as an important corrective to the covering law models of explanation that dominated the philosophy of science in the twentieth century. 5. MECHANISM, CORPUSCULARISM, AND MECHANISTIC REDUCTION lower-level mechanisms can explain higher-level phenomena without necessary appeal to higherlevel terms, as the New Mechanists have argued.	./cache/work_p6lau7nnwjccjamwmhnf7zuaaa.pdf	./txt/work_p6lau7nnwjccjamwmhnf7zuaaa.txt