Role Functions, Mechanisms, and Hierarchy

By Carl F. Craver. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2001

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology

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Mechanisms and psychological explanation (2007, background): “The multi-level nature of mechanisms can be couched in terms of a trichotomy of explanatory strategies — contextual, isolated, and constitutive (e.g., Craver 2001, pp. 62–68).”
Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness : A multilevel framework of description and explanation (2003, unknown): “(Craver, 2001; Craver and Darden, 2001).”
Consciousness as a phenomenon in the operational architectonics of brain organization: Criticality and self-organization considerations (2013, background): “Constitutive explanation “looks” downward and describes what constitutes the phenomenon, while etiological explanation “looks” backward and specifies the causal pathway that either brought about or modulated the phenomenon [44].”
Integrating psychology and neuroscience: functional analyses as mechanism sketches (2011, background): “First, " functional analyses " that assign sub-capacities to structural components are mechanistic explanations (Craver 2001).”
Recognizing mechanistic reasoning in student scientific inquiry: A framework for discourse analysis developed from philosophy of science (2008, background): “Understanding a mechanism involves “understanding how one activity leads to the next through the spatial layout of the components and through their participation in a stereotyped temporal pattern of activities from beginning to end” (Craver, 2001, p. 61).”
Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research (2008, background): “Craver (2001), Machamer, Darden and Craver (2000) Elster (I) A mechanism explains by opening up the black box and showing the cogs and wheels of the internal machinery.”