Inscribed by Darden to Peter Machamer! Gilt stamped blue cloth boards,

Inscribed by Darden to Peter Machamer! Gilt stamped blue cloth boards, octavo, 314pp., not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, Machamer's ownership signature to front flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. No DJ. Machamer has been influential in philosophy of science in developing an account of mechanistic explanation which rejects standard deductive models of explanation, such as the deductive-nomological model by understanding scientific practice as the search for mechanisms. His research has also focused on 17th-century history of philosophy and science, on Galileo Galilei and René Descartes in particular, and on values and science.