adjective. Mechanically determined.

adjective. Of or relating to the philosophy of mechanism, especially tending to explain phenomena only by reference to physical or biological causes.

adjective. Automatic and impersonal; mechanical.

Of or pertaining to mechanism or to mechanists: as, “mechanistic combination,”

adjective. Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine

adjective. Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism

adjective. Having a physical or biological cause

adjective. explained in terms of physical forces

adjective. of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism

"Pivar says he's been working for years in the Thompson tradition, which he characterizes as a mechanistic approach to evolution, using lab simulations, algorithms and topology."

mechanical  

Hellenistic  altruistic  anachronistic  antagonistic  antiballistic  

Copernican  Darwinian  Keynesian  Newtonian  animistic  

Cyrenaic  Eleatic  Epicurean  Marxian  Marxist