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Levels, Groups and Mechanistic Explanation| old_uid | 9900 |
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| title | Levels, Groups and Mechanistic Explanation |
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| start_date | 2011/05/02 |
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| schedule | 17h30-19h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | 3e étage, salle 405 |
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| summary | Appeals to levels of explanation work well as a strategy in cases where our concern is with processes going on within a system. We bet that processes at one level realize or constitute processes at other levels. But in many cases we need to relate different sorts of causal processes where that bet is not plausible, especially in cases where explanations combine environmental factors with others that unfold within an organism. I shall argue that for most cases in the cognitive and (especially) social sciences levels talk is probably not much use, and look at some alternative ways of thinking, including appeals to mechanist and to manipulationist theories. |
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| oncancel | changement de salle et d’horaire |
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| responsibles | Kostyrka, Laplane |
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