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Levels and Mechanisms: Reconsidering Multi-level Mechanistic Explanation
In this paper we present and defend a causal account of multi-level mechanistic explanation by reconsidering the relationship between levels and...
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Mechanistic Explanatory Texts
In this chapter, I address the question how mechanistic models provide why-explanations. I argue for a contrastive approach to mechanistic...
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Different Types of Mechanistic Explanation and Their Ontological Implications
One assumption of the new mechanistic approach is that there are two kinds of mechanistic explanations: etiological and constitutive ones. While the...
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The Metabolic Theory of Ecology as a Mechanistic Approach
Philosophy of science has recently given a great deal of attention to the concept of mechanism. However, unlike the biological mechanisms identified...
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Flat mechanisms: a reductionist approach to levels in mechanistic explanations
The mechanistic framework traditionally comes bundled with a multi-level view. Some ascribe ontological weight to these levels, whereas others claim...
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Fundamental Physics and (New-)Mechanistic Ontologies
According to Kuhlmann & Glennan, fundamental physics and New Mechanicism do “not fit well together” (Kuhlmann and Glennan, Euro J Phil Sci 4:338,...
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An idealised account of mechanistic computation
The mechanistic account of computation offers one promising and influential theory of computational implementation. The aim of this paper is to shore...
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The New Mechanistic Theory of Explanation: A Primer
In this chapter, I introduce the new mechanistic framework of explanation, focusing in particular on constitutive mechanistic explanation. I evaluate...
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Anatomy’s role in mechanistic explanations of organism behaviour
Explanations in behavioural neuroscience are often said to be mechanistic in the sense that they explain an organism’s behaviour by describing the...
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Methodological considerations for the mechanistic explanation of illusory representations in the context of psychopathology
A mechanistic explanation is a desired outcome in many studies of perception. Such explanations require discovering the processes that contribute to...
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Near-death experiences: feasibility and advantages of the mechanistic explanation
The new mechanistic philosophy seeks to identify and explain the mechanisms of various phenomena, including their overall organization and the...
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Deep convolutional neural networks are not mechanistic explanations of object recognition
Given the extent of using deep convolutional neural networks to model the mechanism of object recognition, it becomes important to analyse the...
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A mechanistic guide to reductive physicalism
Causal mediation mechanisms are well supported by available experimental evidence and provide a practicable way to reductive physicalism. According...
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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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First-person constraints on dynamic-mechanistic explanations in neuroscience: The case of migraine and epilepsy models
According to recent discussion, cross-explanatory integration in cognitive science might proceed by constraints on mechanistic and...
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Design principles and mechanistic explanation
In this essay I propose that what design principles in systems biology and systems neuroscience do is to present abstract characterizations of...
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How and when are topological explanations complete mechanistic explanations? The case of multilayer network models
The relationship between topological explanation and mechanistic explanation is unclear. Most philosophers agree that at least some topological...
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A Framework for Map** Mechanistic Perspectives
This edited book is the outcome of a conference that was planned to take place in Lisbon at the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências (CFCUL) of the...
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Ontic and Epistemic Differentiation: Mechanistic Problems for Microbiology and Biology
Species are considered the basic unit of biological classification and evolution. Hence, they are used as a benchmark in several fields, although...
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Vertical-horizontal distinction in resolving the abstraction, hierarchy, and generality problems of the mechanistic account of physical computation
Descriptive abstraction means omission of information from descriptions of phenomena. In this paper, I introduce a distinction between vertical and...
