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Organisms Need Mechanisms; Mechanisms Need Organisms
According to new mechanists, mechanisms explain how specific biological phenomena are produced. New mechanists have had little to say about how...
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Mechanisms in Chemistry
Mechanisms are the how of chemical reactions. Substances are individuated by their structures at the molecular scale, so a chemical reaction is just...
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The Mechanisms of Emergence
Emergentism is often imagined to be opposed to mechanism. If some phenomenon admits of mechanistic explanation, it is thought to be ipso facto not...
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Computational systems as higher-order mechanisms
I argue that there are different orders of mechanisms with different constitutive relevance and individuation conditions. In common first-order...
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Mechanisms of Dissemination
Any account of the conditions for making possible the dissemination of German philosophy in France in the nineteenth century must include the various...
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Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging...
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What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology
Invasion ecology addresses the spread of species outside of their native ranges. A central aim of this field is to find mechanistic explanations for...
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Introduction to niches and mechanisms in ecology and evolution
Niches and mechanisms are two important but contested elements in the study of organism-environment interactions. Although they are closely...
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Cooperation Mechanisms for the Prisoner’s Dilemma with Bayesian Games
This paper explores the cooperation mechanisms for the prisoner’s dilemma game, a canonical example for studying cooperation mechanisms, with...
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Motivation, counterfactual predictions and constraints: normativity of predictive mechanisms
The aim of this paper is to present the ontic approach to the normativity of cognitive functions and mechanisms, which is directly related to the...
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Fairly Meaningful: Mechanisms Linking Organizational Fairness to Perceived Meaningfulness
This research develops and tests a multiple-mediator model of the relationship between organizational fairness and employees’ perceived...
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Mechanisms and Historiographical Explanation
When we think about the Eddington case, we can easily get the sense that the outcome was produced by different types of entities and actors, their...
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Incorporating (variational) free energy models into mechanisms: the case of predictive processing under the free energy principle
The issue of the relationship between predictive processing (PP) and the free energy principle (FEP) remains a subject of debate and controversy...
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Mechanisms of macromolecular reactions
During the past two decades, philosophers of biology have increasingly turned their attention to mechanisms of biological phenomena. Through analyses...
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Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision
The last two decades have seen a mounting fascination with unethical and destructive forms of leadership. Yet, do we know what all encapsulates this...
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Processes, Mechanisms, and Mechanistic Models
Among the philosophical approaches to explanation in the biological and biomedical sciences, the so-called mechanistic approach has doubtless been...
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Cognitive ontology and the search for neural mechanisms: three foundational problems
The central task of cognitive neuroscience to map cognitive capacities to neural mechanisms faces three interlocking conceptual problems that...
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Map** representational mechanisms with deep neural networks
The predominance of machine learning based techniques in cognitive neuroscience raises a host of philosophical and methodological concerns. Given the...
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Historical Approach and Scale Reconstruction of Two Medieval Mechanisms from “The Book of Secrets”
“The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas”, usually called “The Book of Secrets” is a codex containing drawings and descriptions of thirty-one...
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Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms
Darwin claimed that human and animal minds differ in degree but not in kind, and that ethical principles such as the Golden Rule are just an...
