Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences.

Several articles have recently appeared arguing that there really are no viable alternatives to mechanistic explanation in the biological sciences (Kaplan and Bechtel; Kaplan and Craver). We argue that mechanistic explanation is defined by localization and decomposition. We argue further that system...

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Publicado en:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 958 - 971
Autores principales:	Silberstein, Michael, Chemero, Anthony
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Dec2013
Materias:	Mathematical models Mathematical decomposition Computational neuroscience Neurosciences Life sciences
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