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Recent work on emergence in physics has focused on the presence of singular limit relations between basal and upper-level theories as a criterion for emergence. However, over-emphasis on the role of s...
Concretization, Explanation, and Mechanisms
abstraction idealization concretization explanation understanding
2008/4/10
Traditional accounts of explanation fail to illuminate the explanatory relevance of “models that are descriptively false” in the sense that the regularities they entail fail to obtain. In this paper, ...
Computational Modeling vs. Computational Explanation: Is Everything a Turing Machine, and Does It Matter to the Philosophy of Mind?
computationalism computational theory of mind computational modeling
2008/4/10
According to pancomputationalism, everything is a computing system. In this paper, I distinguish between different varieties of pancomputationalism. I find that although some varieties are more plausi...
Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation
Causes Mechanisms
2008/4/10
This paper examines the role of experimental generalizations and physical laws in neuroscientific explanations, using Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s electrophysiological model from 1952 as a test case. I show...
Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy, ed. by Joseph E. Earley, Sr., New York, 2003 (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 988) xiii + 377 pp. [ISBN 1-57331-456-0 cloth, 1-57331-457-9paper]
Chemical Explanation Characteristics
2008/4/3
Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy is a collection of 40 articles presented at the Sixth Summer Symposium on the Philosophy of Chemistry and Biochemistry held by the Internat...