Detail and generality in mechanistic explanation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10799571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Matthewson (0000-0002-4591-1874) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Pages | 28-36 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3681 • E-ISSN: 1879-2510 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.06.001 |
| PMID | 32383670 |
| OpenAlex | W2805078323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
Abstraction · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Generality · Mechanism (biology · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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Top-down Causation Without Top-down Causes
A Critical Assessment of Levins's The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology (1966)
What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms across the sciences
Three Kinds of Idealization
Explanation
Strategies in the interfield discovery of the mechanism of protein synthesis
Beyond reduction
Thinking about evolutionary mechanisms
The causal structure of mechanisms
When mechanistic models explain
The structure of tradeoffs in model building
Integrating psychology and neuroscience
Probability, explanation, and information
Explanation and description in computational neuroscience
Hierarchies and levels of reality
Trade-offs in model-building
Mechanistic Explanation of Biological Processes
Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality
The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization
Explanatory Unification
Complex Systems, Trade-Offs, and Theoretical Population Biology
The Idealization of Causation in Mechanistic Explanation
Explanatory Depth
Thinking about Mechanisms
Rethinking Mechanistic Explanation
Abstraction and the Organization of Mechanisms
Minimal Model Explanations
Mechanistic Abstraction
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |