Mechanisms and psychological explanation

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Sensorimotor intentionality: The origins of intentionality in prospective agent action (2013, background): “7 For a detailed discussion of the Cartesian roots of mechanistic explanations of bodily behaviour see Wright and Bechtel (2007), who point out, “The idea that natural phenomena – including physiological processes – are the activities of mechanisms was already a radical departure from the…”
Developing constructs for psychopathology research: research domain criteria. (2010, unknown): “However, a focus on “lower” level mechanisms does not necessitate that “higher” level constructs be dismissed (Wright & Bechtel, 2007).”
The Nature of Dynamical Explanation* (2011, background): “Indeed, after having been discovered, behavioral regularities are typically explained by describing the mechanisms responsible therefore (Bechtel and Richardson 1993; Machamer, Darden, and Craver 2000; Craver 2007; Wright and Bechtel 2007).”