The potential of plant action potentials.
The mechanism underlying action potentials is routinely used to explicate the mechanistic model of explanation in the philosophy of science. However, characterisations of action potentials often fixate on neurons, mentioning plant cells in passing or ignoring them entirely. The plant sciences are al...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 6; pp. 1 - 31 |
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Dec2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=173770139&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 173770139 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2023 vid: 202 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 173770139 10.1007/s11229-023-04398-7 ppf: 1 ppct: 30 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 933KB tig: atl: The potential of plant action potentials. aug: au: Lee, Jonny Calvo, Paco affil: https://ror.org/03p3aeb86 Minimal Intelligence Laboratory (MINT Lab), Department of Philosophy, Campus de Espinardo, University of Murcia, 30100, Murcia, Spain sug: keyword: Action potential Experimental organism Generalisation Mechanism Mechanistic explanation Nervous system Neuron Plant action potential Plant physiology ab: The mechanism underlying action potentials is routinely used to explicate the mechanistic model of explanation in the philosophy of science. However, characterisations of action potentials often fixate on neurons, mentioning plant cells in passing or ignoring them entirely. The plant sciences are also prone to neglecting non-neuronal action potentials and their role in plant biology. This oversight is significant because plant action potentials bear instructive similarities to those generated by neurons. This paper helps correct the imbalance in representations of action potentials by offering an overview of the mechanism for plant action potentials and highlighting their similarity to those in neurons. Furthermore, it affirms the role of plant action potentials in discovering the evolution and function of mechanisms of action potentials more broadly. We stress the potential of plants for producing generalisations about action potentials and the possible role of plants as experimental organisms. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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