Add to ORKGJames Woodward offers a conception of explanation and mechanism in terms of interventionist counterfactuals. Based on a case from ecology, I show that ecologists’ approach to that case satisfiesWoodward’s conditions for explanation and mechanism, but his conception does not fully capture what ecologists view as explanatory. The new mechanistic philosophy likewise aims to describe central aspects of mechanisms, but I show that it is not sufficient to account for ecological mechanisms. I argue that in ecology explanation involves identification of invariant and insensitive causal relationships and descriptions of the mechanistic characteristics that make these relations possible
This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of scie...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
Biological explanations are often designed to elucidate the general causal relationships that transc...
Jani Raerinne and Lindley Darden argue that causal claims are not sufficiently explanatory, and caus...
New mechanistic philosophy has not examined explanations in ecology although they are based extensiv...
New mechanistic philosophy has not examined explanations in ecology although they are based extensiv...
Invasion ecology addresses the spread of species outside of their native ranges. A central aim of th...
There is a recent literature in philosophy that has developed a taxonomy of scientific explanations ...
The search for mechanisms and their description of explanatory and predictive purposes has been, and...
La ecología es una ciencia importante, tanto desde el punto de vista práctico como desde el teórico,...
La ecología es una ciencia importante, tanto desde el punto de vista práctico como desde el teórico,...
Marcel Weber (1999) argued that the principle of competitive exclusion is a law of ecology that coul...
Recent work in the philosophy of biology has sought after an account of mechanistic explanation. Bio...
In light of recent criticisms by Woodward (2017) and Rescorla (2018), we examine the relationship be...
Mechanism is undoubtedly a causal concept, in the sense that ordinary definitions and philosophical ...
This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of scie...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
Biological explanations are often designed to elucidate the general causal relationships that transc...
Jani Raerinne and Lindley Darden argue that causal claims are not sufficiently explanatory, and caus...
New mechanistic philosophy has not examined explanations in ecology although they are based extensiv...
New mechanistic philosophy has not examined explanations in ecology although they are based extensiv...
Invasion ecology addresses the spread of species outside of their native ranges. A central aim of th...
There is a recent literature in philosophy that has developed a taxonomy of scientific explanations ...
The search for mechanisms and their description of explanatory and predictive purposes has been, and...
La ecología es una ciencia importante, tanto desde el punto de vista práctico como desde el teórico,...
La ecología es una ciencia importante, tanto desde el punto de vista práctico como desde el teórico,...
Marcel Weber (1999) argued that the principle of competitive exclusion is a law of ecology that coul...
Recent work in the philosophy of biology has sought after an account of mechanistic explanation. Bio...
In light of recent criticisms by Woodward (2017) and Rescorla (2018), we examine the relationship be...
Mechanism is undoubtedly a causal concept, in the sense that ordinary definitions and philosophical ...
This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of scie...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
Biological explanations are often designed to elucidate the general causal relationships that transc...