Models and mechanisms in psychological explanation.

Mechanistic explanation has an impressive track record of advancing our understanding of complex, hierarchically organized physical systems, particularly biological and neural systems. But not every complex system can be understood mechanistically. Psychological capacities are often understood by pr...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 183; no. 3; pp. 313 - 339
Main Author:	Weiskopf, Daniel
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Dec2011
Subjects:	Cognitive psychology research Computational neuroscience Mechanism (Philosophy) Functional analysis Componential analysis (Linguistics)
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