Explanatory completeness and idealization in large brain simulations: a mechanistic perspective.

The claim defended in the paper is that the mechanistic account of explanation can easily embrace idealization in big-scale brain simulations, and that only causally relevant detail should be present in explanatory models. The claim is illustrated with two methodologically different models: (1) Blue...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 5; pp. 1457 - 1479
Autor principal: Miłkowski, Marcin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature May2016
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