Discovering mechanisms in neurobiology: The case of spatial memory

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When mechanistic models explain (2006, background): “…preliminary and incomplete checklist for assessing mechanistic explanations, for distinguishing how-possibly models from how-actually explanations (see Craver, forthcoming; Glennan, 2005 for further details), and for shrinking the space of plausible mechanisms (see also Craver & Darden, 2001).”
Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness : A multilevel framework of description and explanation (2003, methodology): “Our definition is based on a widely used framework of scientific explanation in the biological and psychological sciences called ‘multi-level mechanistic explanation’ (see Bechtel and Richardson, 1993; Machamer, Darden and Craver, 2000; Craver and Darden, 2001; Revonsuo, 2001).”