(1) Behaviorism is an example of a theory that is founded on a mechanistic paradigm.

(2) I believe that physicians and patients may be responding to how mechanistic the practice of medicine has become.

(3) Both sides assume an essentially deterministic, mechanistic view of nature.

(4) Until recently, this mechanistic view of nature and human beings has held sway.

(5) His work in chemistry was aimed at establishing it as a mathematical science based on a mechanistic theory of matter.

(6) The true philosophy of Cudworth's intellectual system combines mechanistic atomism with Platonic metaphysics.

(7) Perhaps you think I don't accept this idea and instead think in some literal mechanistic way?

(8) The idea of a Newtonian, mechanistic universe, and thus causal determinism, is out of date.

(9) Three mechanistic hypotheses have been proposed to explain those relationships.

(10) There is no morality in the mechanistic world, and no freedom, as human beings cannot act otherwise to their nature.

(11) Human behavior is to be explained in terms of mechanistic causes, just as the behavior of all natural phenomena are to be explained.

(12) Vitalism is opposed to mechanistic materialism and its thesis that life emerges from a complex combination of organic matter.

(13) The mechanistic basis of these phenomena is not understood.

(14) It demands an approach that is the negation of purely mechanistic materialism.

(15) Malik seems to recognise this threat when he argues that the attempt to understand human beings in mechanistic terms is motivated by an anti-humanism.

(16) He believed in atomism and defended a mechanistic explanation of nature.

(17) This reductionist or mechanistic view of patients is no longer satisfactory.

(18) Allen particularly drew attention to the mechanistic materialism that underlay these conceptions.

(19) There certainly appears to be a tension between a mechanistic philosophy and a humanistic outlook.

(20) They do not accept that the biological world is governed by mechanistic processes determined by laws of nature.