Bibliography: Recent Work on Mechanisms in Philosophy of Science

Fall, 2007

 

 

 

Baker, Jason M. (2005), ÒAdaptive Speciation: The Role of Natural Selection in Mechanisms of Geographic and Non-geographic Speciation,Ó in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 303-326.

 

Bechtel, W. (2001). "Cognitive Neuroscience: Relating Neural Mechanisms and Cognition," in P. Machamer, P. McLaughlin and R. Grush (eds.), Philosophic Reflections on the Methods of Neuroscience. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Bechtel, William and Adele Abrahamsen (2005), ÒExplanation: A Mechanist Alternative,Ó in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 421-441.

 

Bechtel, William and Robert C. Richardson (1993), Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

For additional publications by William Bechtel, see his web page:

http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/

 

Bogen, James (2004), "Analysing Causality: The Opposite of Counterfactual is Factual," International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18: 3-26.

 

Bogen, James (2005), ÒRegularities and Causality; Generalizations and Causal Explanations,Ó in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 397-420.

 

Bogen, James (forthcoming 2008), "Causally Productive Activities," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

 

 

Buchanan, Bruce (1982), ÒMechanizing the Search for Explanatory Hypotheses,Ó in Peter Asquith and Thomas Nickles (eds.), PSA 1982 v. 2. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, pp. 129-146.

 

Buchanan, Bruce (1985), ÒSteps Toward Mechanizing Discovery,Ó in K. Schaffner (ed.), Logic of Discovery and Diagnosis in Medicine. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 94-114.

 

Craver, Carl (1998), Neural Mechanisms: On the Structure, Function, and Development of Theories in Neurobiology. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

Craver, Carl (2001), "Role Functions, Mechanisms, and Hierarchy," Philosophy of Science 68: 53-74.

 

Craver, Carl F. (2002), "Structures of Scientific Theories," in P. K. Machamer and M. Silberstein (eds.), Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 55-79.

 

Craver, Carl (2002), "Interlevel Experiments, Multilevel Mechanisms in the Neuroscience of Memory," Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 69: S83-S97.

 

Craver, Carl F. (2003) ÒThe Making of a Memory MechanismÓ Journal of the History of Biology 36: 153-195.

 

Craver, Carl F. (2004) "Dissociable Realization and Kind Splitting" Philosophy of Science. 71: 960-971.

 

Craver, Carl F. (2005), ÒBeyond Reduction: Mechanisms, Multifield Integration, and the Unity of Neuroscience,Ó in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 373-397.

 

Craver, Carl F. (2006),  "When Mechanistic Models Explain," Synthese. 153: 355-376.

 

Craver, Carl F. (2007) Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

            http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Mind/?view=usa&ci=9780199299317

 

Craver, Carl F. and William Bechtel (2005) ÒMechanisms and Mechanistic ExplanationÓ in S. Sarkar and J. Pfeiffer ( eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. Rutledge Press.

 

Craver, Carl F. and William Bechtel (2007), "Top-down Causation Without Top-down Causes," Biology and Philosophy 22:547–563.

 

Craver, Carl and Lindley Darden (2001), "Discovering Mechanisms in Neurobiology: The Case of Spatial Memory," in Peter Machamer, R. Grush, and P. McLaughlin (eds.), Theory and Method in the Neurosciences. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 112-137.

 

Craver, Carl F. and Lindley Darden (2005), ÒIntroduction: Mechanisms Then and Now,Ó in Special Issue, ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 233-244.

 

Darden, Lindley (2001), "Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective," in Klaus P. Jantke and Ayumi Shinohara (eds.), Discovery Science (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, DS2001). New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 3-15.

                http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/papers/2226/22260003.pdf

 

Darden, Lindley (2002), "Strategies for Discovering Mechanisms: Schema Instantiation, Modular Subassembly, Forward/Backward Chaining," Philosophy of Science (Supplement ) 69: S354-S365. preprint available:

http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/Faculty/LDarden/Research/pubs/pubs.html

 

Darden, Lindley (2002), "Discovering Mechanisms in Molecular Biology: Finding and Fixing Incompleteness and Incorrectness," in Jutta Schickore and Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification. Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for History of Science, pp. 143-154.

 

 Darden, Lindley (2005), "Relations Among Fields: Mendelian, Cytological and Molecular Mechanisms," in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: "Mechanisms in Biology," Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 357-371.

 

Darden, Lindley (2006), Reasoning in Biological Discoveries: Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, and Anomaly Resolution. New York: Cambridge University Press

            http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521858878&ss=cop

 

Darden, Lindley (2006), "Flow of Information in Molecular Biological Mechanisms," Biological Theory 1 (3): 280-287.

 

Darden, Lindley (in press), "Thinking Again About Mechanisms," in Philosophy of Science (Proceedings): Symposium Papers for PSA 2006.

 

Darden, Lindley and Carl Craver (2002), "Strategies in the Interfield Discovery of the Mechanism of Protein Synthesis," Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33: 1-28.

 

Didion, David (2003), "Relevant Bounds on Hierarchical Levels in the Description of Mechanisms," History and Philosophy of Life Sciences 25: 5-25.

 

Forge, John (1998), ÒExplanation and MechanismsÓ in D. Anapolitanos, A. Baltas, S. Tsinorema, A. Panepistemio (eds.), Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 76-92.

 

Friedberg, Errol C. (1997), Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms. Plainview, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

 

Glennan, Stuart S., (1992), Mechanisms, Models, and Causation. Ph.D. Dissertation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

 

Glennan, Stuart S. (1996), "Mechanisms and The Nature of Causation," Erkenntnis 44: 49-71.

               

Glennan, Stuart S. (1997), "Capacities, Universality, and Singularity," Philosophy of Science 64:605-626.

             

Glennan, Stuart S. (1997), "Probably Causes and the Distinction between Subjective and Objective Chance," Nous 31:496-519

 

Glennan, Stuart S. (2002), "Contextual Unanimity and the Units of Selection Problem," Philosophy of Science 69: 118-137.

 

Glennan, Stuart S. (2002), "Rethinking Mechanistic Explanation," Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 69: S342--S353.

 

Glennan, Stuart S. (2005), ÒModeling Mechanisms,Ó in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 443-464.

 

Kary, Carla E. (1990), ÒOne Causal Mechanism in Evolution: One Unit of Selection,Ó Philosophy of Science 57(2): 290-296.

 

Machamer, Peter, Lindley Darden, and Carl Carver (2000), "Thinking About Mechanisms," Philosophy of Science 67: 1-25.

                referred to as MDC

 

Machamer, Peter (2002), "Activities and Causation" Presented at PSA 2002 Workshop, University of Pittsburgh Philosophy of Science Archive,

                http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000864/

 

Machamer, Peter (2004), ÒActivities and Causation: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Mechanisms,Ó International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18: 27-39.

 

Machamer and Sullivan, Peter & Jacqueline (2001) "Levelling Reduction"

                Presented at Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001, University of Pittsburgh Philosophy of Science Archive,

                http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000386/

 

Piccinini, G. (2006), "Computational Explanation in Neuroscience." Synthese 153 (3): 343-353. 

 

Piccinini, G. (2007), "Computational Explanation and Mechanistic Explanation of Mind," in M. De Caro, F. Ferretti and M. Marraffa(eds.), Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection. Springer, pp. 23-36.

 

Piccinini, G. (2007), "Computationalism, the Church-Turing Thesis, and the Church-Turing Fallacy," Synthese 154 (1): 97-120.

 

Piccinini, G. (forthcoming), "Computation without Representation." Philosophical Studies.

 

Piccinini, G. (forthcoming), "Computational Modeling vs. Computational Explanation: Is Everything a Turing Machine, and Does It Matter to the Philosophy of Mind?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

 

 

Psillos, Stathis (2004), ÒA Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonizing Mechanisms with Counterfactuals,Ó Perspectives on Science 12: 288-391.

 

Skipper, Robert A., Jr. and Roberta L. Millstein (2005), ÒThinking about Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection,Ó in Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden (eds.), Special Issue: ÒMechanisms in Biology,Ó Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36: 327-347.

 

Tabery, James G. (2004), "Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism," Philosophy of Science 71: 1-15.

 

Thagard, Paul (1998), "Explaining Disease: Causes, Correlations, and Mechanisms," Minds and Machines 8: 61-78.

 

Thagard, Paul (1999), How Scientists Explain Disease. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Thagard, Paul (2003), "Pathways to Biomedical Discovery," Philosophy of Science 70, 235-254.

 

Thagard, Paul (forthcoming), "What is a Medical Theory?" in R. C. Paton & D. Leishman (eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

 

Wilson, Robert A.  and  Carl F. Craver (2007), "Realization: Metaphysical and Scientific Perspectives," in Paul Thagard (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science.  Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 81-104.

 

Wimsatt, William (1972), "Complexity and Organization," in Kenneth F. Schaffner and Robert S. Cohen (eds.), PSA 1972, Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 67-86.

 

Wimsatt, William (1976), "Reductive Explanation: A Functional Account," in A. C. Michalos, C. A. Hooker, G. Pearce, and R. S. Cohen (eds.), PSA 1974. Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 671-710. Reprinted in Sober, Elliott (ed.) (1984), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology: An Anthology, 1st. ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 477-508.

 

Woodward, James (2002), "What is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account," Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 69: S366-S377.