Russell Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3088-2617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An explanatory taste for mechanisms
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations
This article demonstrates that non-mechanistic, dynamical explanations are a viable approach to explanation in the special sciences. The claim that dynamical models can be explanatory without reference to mechanisms has previously been met with three lines of criticism from mechanists: the causal relevance concern, the genuine laws concern, and the charge of predictivism. I argue, however, that these mechanist criticisms fail to defeat non-mechan…
The Effect of Compulsory Writing on Writing Apprehension
The teaching of basic composition courses is oriented toward not only improving skills but also toward favorably affecting the student's orientation about writing; skills alone are insufficient unless one also has a predisposition toward using those skills. The recently emerging concept of writing (Daly & Miller, 1975a) appears to have a major relationship to both skill achievement and attitude toward writing. Writing apprehension is defined as a…
The subliminal perception of movement and the course of autokinesis
The course of autokinesis is shown to be sensitive to the real movement of a surrounding stimulus. With the supraliminal presentation of this stimulus, apparent movement in a direction opposite to that of the real movement is induced. With the subliminal presentation of the same stimulus the real movement serves to inhibit autokinesis by inducing brief periods of stationarity between the phases of upward and downward apparent movement. The result…
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations
This article demonstrates that non-mechanistic, dynamical explanations are a viable approach to explanation in the special sciences. The claim that dynamical models can be explanatory without reference to mechanisms has previously been met with three lines of criticism from mechanists: the causal relevance concern, the genuine laws concern, and the charge of predictivism. I argue, however, that these mechanist criticisms fail to defeat non-mechan…
The subliminal perception of movement and the course of autokinesis
The course of autokinesis is shown to be sensitive to the real movement of a surrounding stimulus. With the supraliminal presentation of this stimulus, apparent movement in a direction opposite to that of the real movement is induced. With the subliminal presentation of the same stimulus the real movement serves to inhibit autokinesis by inducing brief periods of stationarity between the phases of upward and downward apparent movement. The result…
The Effect of Compulsory Writing on Writing Apprehension
The teaching of basic composition courses is oriented toward not only improving skills but also toward favorably affecting the student's orientation about writing; skills alone are insufficient unless one also has a predisposition toward using those skills. The recently emerging concept of writing (Daly & Miller, 1975a) appears to have a major relationship to both skill achievement and attitude toward writing. Writing apprehension is defined as a…
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations
This article demonstrates that non-mechanistic, dynamical explanations are a viable approach to explanation in the special sciences. The claim that dynamical models can be explanatory without reference to mechanisms has previously been met with three lines of criticism from mechanists: the causal relevance concern, the genuine laws concern, and the charge of predictivism. I argue, however, that these mechanist criticisms fail to defeat non-mechan…
An explanatory taste for mechanisms
Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anxiety (1 works)