In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences

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Everything Flows : Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018, background): “The recent realization that biologists frequently invoke mechanisms in their explanations of phenomena has led to an explosion of interest in the philosophy of science, as a growing number of philosophers have tried to come to terms with the nature and scope of so-called mechanistic explanations (e.”
A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018, background): “…of phenomena has led to an explosion of interest in the philosophy of science as a growing number of philosophers have tried to come to terms with the nature and scope of so-called mechanistic explanations (e.g. Machamer et al. 2000; Glennan 2002; Bechtel 2006; Craver 2007; Craver and Darden 2013).”