The concept of mechanism has been an important organizing principle in science and
philosophy since at least the early modern period (Dijksterhuis 1950 [1961]; Boas 1952) …

The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science—one that
understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that …

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of
science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised …

Mechanistic reasoning, or reasoning systematically through underlying factors and
relationships that give rise to phenomena, is a powerful thinking strategy that allows one to …

We argue that artificial networks are explainable and offer a novel theory of interpretability.
Two sets of conceptual questions are prominent in theoretical engagements with artificial …

Evolution exploits the physics of non‐neural bioelectricity to implement anatomical
homeostasis: a process in which embryonic patterning, remodeling, and regeneration …

3 wider range of scientific domains. We should emphasize that both of these classifications
are idealizations. Metaphysical and methodological questions are of course not that easy to …

Over the last two decades few topics in philosophy of science have received as much
attention as mechanistic explanation. A significant motivation for these accounts is that …

In addition to considering sociocultural, political, economic, and ethical factors (to name a
few), effectively engaging socioscientific issues (SSI) requires that students understand and …

The terms 'structural injustice'and 'systemic injustice'are commonly used, but their meanings
are elusive. In this paper, I sketch an ontology of social systems that embeds accounts of …