Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
This paper is about the interaction and the intertwinement between history of science as a historical process and history of science as the historiography of this process, taking molecular biology as an example. In the first part, two histo...
Soraya de Chadarevian,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Soraya de Chadarevian
Modeling mechanisms [0.03%]
建模机制
Stuart Glennan
Stuart Glennan
Philosophers of science increasingly believe that much of science is concerned with understanding the mechanisms responsible for the production of natural phenomena. An adequate understanding of scientific research requires an account of ho...
William Bechtel,Adele Abrahamsen
William Bechtel
Explanations in the life sciences frequently involve presenting a model of the mechanism taken to be responsible for a given phenomenon. Such explanations depart in numerous ways from nomological explanations commonly presented in philosoph...
Jim Bogen
Jim Bogen
Machamer, Darden, and Craver argue (Mechanism) that causal explanations explain effects by describing the operations of the mechanisms (systems of entities engaging in productive activities) which produce them. One of the aims of this paper...
Beyond reduction: mechanisms, multifield integration and the unity of neuroscience [0.03%]
超越还原论：机制、多领域整合与神经科学的统一性
Carl F Craver
Carl F Craver
Philosophers of neuroscience have traditionally described interfield integration using reduction models. Such models describe formal inferential relations between theories at different levels. I argue against reduction and for a mechanistic...
Relations among fields: Mendelian, cytological and molecular mechanisms [0.03%]
领域间的联系： Mendelian、细胞学和分子机制间的关联关系
Lindley Darden
Lindley Darden
Philosophers have proposed various kinds of relations between Mendelian genetics and molecular biology: reduction, replacement, explanatory extension. This paper argues that the two fields are best characterized as investigating different, ...
Robert A Skipper Jr,Roberta L Millstein
Robert A Skipper Jr
This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of mechanism, due to Glennan and the team of Machamer, Darden, and Crav...
Adaptive speciation: the role of natural selection in mechanisms of geographic and non-geographic speciation [0.03%]
适应性物种形成：自然选择在地理和非地理物种形成机制中的作用
Jason M Baker
Jason M Baker
Recent discussion of mechanism has suggested new approaches to several issues in the philosophy of science, including theory structure, causal explanation, and reductionism. Here, I apply what I take to be the fruits of the 'new mechanical ...