This volume argues for a new image of science that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, casting the work of science as

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as search

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Richard Baxter, one of the 17th century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy.