- Forthcoming in Erkenntnis The Downs and Ups of Mechanistic Research
- Mental Mechanisms: What are the Operations? William Bechtel (bill@mechanism.ucsd.edu)
- Interest in mechanisms has experienced a recent upsurge in the philosophy of science generally (e.g.,
- From Reactive to Endogenously Active Dynamical Conceptions of the Brain Adele Abrahamsen
- This book is the product of research spanning two decades. In the 1980s I had been investigating the history of cytology in the nineteenth century and
- 1 | P a g e To appear in Fritz Allhoff (Ed.) Philosophy of
- Mental Mechanisms, Autonomous Systems, and Moral Agency William Bechtel (bechtel@mechanism.ucsd.edu)
- To appear in Albert Newen, Andreas Bartels & Eva-Maria Jung (eds.) Knowledge and Representation. Palo Alto: CSLI Publications and Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.
- To appear as part of Symposium on Extending Mechanistic Analysis in Philosophy of Science, 75, 2008
- HIT on the Psychometric Approach Daniel Burnston, Benjamin Sheredos, and William Bechtel
- From Reduction Back to Higher Levels William Bechtel (bechtel@mechanism.ucsd.edu)
- Support for this research was provided by the American Society for Cell Biology, the National Endowment for the Humanities (RH-21013-91) and Georgia State University, all of
- To appear in Leitgeb, H. and Hieke, A. (Eds.), Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Neuroscience. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag
- To appear in In R. Skipper Jr., C. Allen, R. A. Ankeny, C. F. Craver, L. Darden, G. Mikkelson, and R. Richardson (eds.), Philosophy and the Life Sciences: A Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Natural Deduction in Connectionist Systems William Bechtel
- The Compatibility of Complex Systems and Reduction: A Case Analysis of Memory Research
- Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes William Bechtel1
- To appear in A. Raftopoulos and P. Machamer (Eds.), Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Understanding the Brain as an Endogenously Active Mechanism William Bechtel (bill@mechanism.ucsd.edu)
- To appear in a special issues of Philosophical Psychology Looking Down, Around, and Up
- The cell: locus or object of inquiry? William Bechtel
- Manuscript for inclusion in Bickle, J. (Editor), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
- William Bechtel, Department of Philosophy, 0119, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093; e-mail: bill@mind-brain.net.
- In Search of Mitochondrial Mechanisms: Interfield Excursions between Cell Biology and Biochemistry
- Dynamical Models: An Alternative or Complement to Mechanistic Explanations?
- Thinking Dynamically About Biological Mechanisms: Networks of Coupled Oscillators
- To appear in C. A. Hooker, Philosophy of Complex Systems. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 10. Elsevier.
- To appear in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation: Computational Modeling of
- To appear in Topics in Cognitive Science How Can Philosophy be a True Cognitive Science Discipline?
- Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science Generalization and Discovery by Assuming Conserved Mechanisms
- To appear in P. Robbins and M. Aydede (Eds.). Cambridge handbook of situated cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Systems Biology Philosophical Foundations
- To appear in T. Kuipers (ed.), Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues (Volume 1 of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science). New York: Elsevier.
- THE CHALLENGE OF CHARACTERIZING OPERATIONS IN THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING BEHAVIOR
- Explanation: a mechanist alternative William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen
- To appear in Bulletin d'Histoire et d'Epistmologie des Sciences de la Vie Mechanistic Explanation and the Nature-Nurture Controversy
- Remarks on Fodor on Having Concepts DANIEL A. WEISKOPF AND WILLIAM BECHTEL
- Integrating Neuroscience, Psychology, and Evolutionary Biology Through a Teleological Conception of Function
- WHAT KNOWLEDGE MUST BE IN THE HEAD IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE LANGUAGE?
- August 31, 1994 Consciousness: Perspectives from Symbolic and Connectionist AI
- Levels of Description and Explanation in Cognitive Science*
- To appear in S. Gozzano and C. Hill (Eds.), The mental, The physical: New perspectives on type identity. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
- Explanation: A Mechanist Alternative William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen
- Biological Mechanisms: Organized to Maintain Autonomy1 William Bechtel
- Seminal events that marked its reemergence were the publication of Hinton and Anderson (1981), the Cognitive Science Society meetings in 1984, and the publication of the PDP volumes
- To appear in P. Calvo and J. Symons (ed.) Routledge companion to philosophy of psychology. London: Routledge
- Brain and Mind 3: 229242, 2002. 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
