Thinking about mechanisms is part and parcel of the philosophy of science agenda in the last decade. What has been called “the new mechanistic philosophy ” (Skipper and Millstein 2005) conceives of mechanisms as the main providers of biological explanation. The latter is, in order, an open-ended endeavour mainly consisting in filling in the missing causal links of a biologica
Ever since the advent of molecular biology in the 1970s, mechanical models have become the dogma in ...
In the last few decades, philosophy of science has increasingly focused on multilevel models and cau...
The nature of the product to be discovered guides the reasoning to discover it. Biologists and medic...
International audienceWhat has been called the new mechanistic philosophy conceives of mechanisms as...
What has been called the new mechanistic philosophy conceives of mechanisms as the main providers of...
Much of the recent philosophical debate on causation and causal explanation in the biological and b...
The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of philosophical interest in mechanisms, an interest th...
I distinguish three theses associated with the new mechanistic philosophy – concerning causation, ex...
This chapter provides a "functionalist account" of the ways that mechanisms are sought, formulated, ...
The concept of mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings. It may refer to a philosophical the...
[eng] Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of scie...
Mechanism is a widely used concept in biology. In 2017, more than 10% of PubMed abstracts used the t...
In the last two decades few topics in philosophy of science have received as much attention as mecha...
Ever since the advent of molecular biology in the 1970s, mechanical models have become the dogma in ...
In the last few decades, philosophy of science has increasingly focused on multilevel models and cau...
The nature of the product to be discovered guides the reasoning to discover it. Biologists and medic...
International audienceWhat has been called the new mechanistic philosophy conceives of mechanisms as...
What has been called the new mechanistic philosophy conceives of mechanisms as the main providers of...
Much of the recent philosophical debate on causation and causal explanation in the biological and b...
The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of philosophical interest in mechanisms, an interest th...
I distinguish three theses associated with the new mechanistic philosophy – concerning causation, ex...
This chapter provides a "functionalist account" of the ways that mechanisms are sought, formulated, ...
The concept of mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings. It may refer to a philosophical the...
[eng] Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of scie...
Mechanism is a widely used concept in biology. In 2017, more than 10% of PubMed abstracts used the t...
In the last two decades few topics in philosophy of science have received as much attention as mecha...
Ever since the advent of molecular biology in the 1970s, mechanical models have become the dogma in ...
In the last few decades, philosophy of science has increasingly focused on multilevel models and cau...
The nature of the product to be discovered guides the reasoning to discover it. Biologists and medic...