A fundamental goal of research in neuroscience is to uncover the causal structure of the
brain. This focus on causation makes sense, because causal information can provide …

We argue that artificial networks are explainable and offer a novel theory of interpretability.
Two sets of conceptual questions are prominent in theoretical engagements with artificial …

Over the last two decades few topics in philosophy of science have received as much
attention as mechanistic explanation. A significant motivation for these accounts is that …

Organization figures centrally in the understanding of biological systems advanced by both
new mechanists and proponents of the autonomy framework. The new mechanists focus on …

Idealization and abstraction are central concepts in the philosophy of science and in science
itself. My goal in this paper is suggest an account of these concepts, building on and refining …

A common reductionist assumption is that macro-scale behaviors can be described “bottom-
up” if only sufficient details about lower-scale processes are available. The view that an …

An enduring controversy in biological and psychological sciences has centered on the
tension between the role of random multiplicative cascade processes and the sometimes …

According to mainstream philosophical views causal explanation in biology and
neuroscience is mechanistic. As the term 'mechanism'gets regular use in these fields it is …

This article argues that scale dependence of physical and biological processes offers
resistance to reductionism and has implications that support a specific kind of downward …

Although the analogy between macroscopic machines and biological molecular devices
plays an important role in the conceptual framework of both neo-mechanistic accounts and …