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William Bechtel
94 works
· latest 2024
· 8 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0001-6370-5321
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Situating homeostasis in organisms: maintaining organization through time
The Journal of Physiology
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2024
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2 authors
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review
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Open access
30
citations
Organisms Need Mechanisms; Mechanisms Need Organisms
History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences
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2023
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2 authors
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chapter
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Open access
30
citations
Discovering autoinhibition as a design principle for the control of biological mechanisms
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
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2022
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2 authors
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Open access
17
citations
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein
Philosophy of Science
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2022
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1 author
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Open access
13
citations
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
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2022
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2 authors
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Open access
106
citations
Philosophy of Neuroscience
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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2022
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2 authors
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book
51
citations
Control mechanisms: Explaining the integration and versatility of biological organisms
Adaptive Behavior
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2022
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2 authors
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Open access
108
citations
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation
Biology & Philosophy
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2021
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2 authors
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Open access
45
citations
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors
Synthese
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2021
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2 authors
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Open access
17
citations
Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: A Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective
Philosophy of Science
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2021
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3 authors
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Open access
11
citations
Rethinking Psychiatric Disorders in Terms of Heterarchical Networks of Control Mechanisms
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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2020
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1 author
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chapter
24
citations
What is Psychological Explanation?
Routledge eBooks
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2019
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2 authors
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chapter
27
citations
Being Emergence vs. Pattern Emergence
Routledge eBooks
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2019
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2 authors
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chapter
13
citations
The Importance of Constraints and Control in Biological Mechanisms: Insights from Cancer Research
Philosophy of Science
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2018
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1 author
49
citations
Rethinking Causality in Biological and Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control
Minds and Machines
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2018
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2 authors
116
citations
Marr’s Computational Level and Delineating Phenomena
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2018
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2 authors
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book
41
citations
Analysing Network Models to Make Discoveries about Biological Mechanisms
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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2017
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1 author
42
citations
The Life of Cognitive Science
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2017
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3 authors
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other
27
citations
Selective Biographies of Major Contributors to Cognitive Science
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2017
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2 authors
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other
1
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Top-Down Causation in Biology and Neuroscience
Routledge eBooks
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2017
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1 author
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chapter
21
citations
Network analyses in systems biology: new strategies for dealing with biological complexity
Synthese
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2017
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6 authors
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131
citations
Systems Biology: Negotiating Between Holism and Reductionism
History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences
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2016
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1 author
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chapter
22
citations
Explicating Top-Down Causation Using Networks and Dynamics
Philosophy of Science
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2016
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1 author
84
citations
Mechanists Must be Holists Too! Perspectives from Circadian Biology
Journal of the History of Biology
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2016
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1 author
14
citations
Using computational models to discover and understand mechanisms
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
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2015
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1 author
13
citations
Can mechanistic explanation be reconciled with scale-free constitution and dynamics?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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2015
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1 author
73
citations
The Non‐Redundant Contributions of Marr's Three Levels of Analysis for Explaining Information‐Processing Mechanisms
Topics in Cognitive Science
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2015
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2 authors
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review
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96
citations
Generalizing Mechanistic Explanations Using Graph-Theoretic Representations
History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences
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2015
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1 author
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chapter
17
citations
Scientists’ use of diagrams in developing mechanistic explanations
Pragmatics & Cognition
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2014
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4 authors
16
citations
Diagrams as Tools for Scientific Reasoning
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
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2014
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2 authors
29
citations
Design sans adaptation
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
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2014
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3 authors
35
citations
Investigating neural representations: the tale of place cells
Synthese
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2014
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1 author
97
citations
Why Do Biologists Use So Many Diagrams?
Philosophy of Science
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2013
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4 authors
72
citations
Abstraction and the Organization of Mechanisms
Philosophy of Science
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2013
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2 authors
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other
258
citations
Addressing the Vitalist’s Challenge to Mechanistic Science: Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation
History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences
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2013
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1 author
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chapter
29
citations
Thinking Dynamically About Biological Mechanisms: Networks of Coupled Oscillators
Foundations of Science
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2012
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2 authors
98
citations
From molecules to behavior and the clinic: Integration in chronobiology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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2012
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1 author
23
citations
History and core themes
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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2012
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2 authors
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chapter
17
citations
Understanding endogenously active mechanisms: A scientific and philosophical challenge
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
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2012
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1 author
31
citations
From Reactive to Endogenously Active Dynamical Conceptions of the Brain
Boston studies in the philosophy of science
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2011
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2 authors
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chapter
15
citations
Mechanism and Biological Explanation
Philosophy of Science
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2011
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1 author
231
citations
Dynamical Models: An Alternative or Complement to Mechanistic Explanations?
Topics in Cognitive Science
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2011
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2 authors
111
citations
Complex Biological Mechanisms
Elsevier eBooks
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2011
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2 authors
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chapter
76
citations
The Downs and Ups of Mechanistic Research: Circadian Rhythm Research as an Exemplar
Erkenntnis
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2010
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1 author
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Open access
34
citations
Dynamic mechanistic explanation: computational modeling of circadian rhythms as an exemplar for cognitive science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
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2010
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2 authors
256
citations
The cell: locus or object of inquiry?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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2010
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1 author
15
citations
Discovering Complexity
The MIT Press eBooks
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2010
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1 author
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book
653
citations
The Rumelhart Prize at 10
Cognitive Science
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2010
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6 authors
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Open access
0
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DECOMPOSING, RECOMPOSING, AND SITUATING CIRCADIAN MECHANISMS: THREE TASKS IN DEVELOPING MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS
De Gruyter eBooks
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2009
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2 authors
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chapter
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28
citations
Generalization and Discovery by Assuming Conserved Mechanisms: Cross-Species Research on Circadian Oscillators
Philosophy of Science
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2009
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1 author
43
citations
Looking down, around, and up: Mechanistic explanation in psychology
Philosophical Psychology
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2009
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1 author
167
citations
Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science
Topics in Cognitive Science
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2009
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1 author
66
citations
Mechanisms in Cognitive Psychology: What Are the Operations?
Philosophy of Science
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2008
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1 author
100
citations
A (2008). From Reduction Back to Higher Levels
eScholarship (California Digital Library)
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2008
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2 authors
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Open access
17
citations
Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience
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2007
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1 author
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book
466
citations
Mental Mechanisms
Psychology Press eBooks
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2007
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1 author
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book
115
citations
Mechanisms and psychological explanation
Elsevier eBooks
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2007
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2 authors
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chapter
107
citations
Biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy1*I thank Fred Boogerd, Frank Bruggeman, Andrew Hamilton, Alvaro Moreno, Adam Streed, and Cory Wright for the very useful discussions and helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
Elsevier eBooks
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2007
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1 author
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chapter
84
citations
Reduction, Integration, and the Unity of Science
Elsevier eBooks
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2007
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2 authors
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chapter
45
citations
In Search of Mitochondrial Mechanisms: Interfield Excursions between Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Journal of the History of Biology
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2006
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2 authors
15
citations