The concept of mechanism has been an important organizing principle in science and
philosophy since at least the early modern period (Dijksterhuis 1950 [1961]; Boas 1952) …

Completeness is an important but misunderstood norm of explanation. It has recently been
argued that mechanistic accounts of scientific explanation are committed to the thesis that …

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Reductionism encompasses a set of ontological, epistemological, and methodological
claims about the relations between different scientific domains. The basic question of …

We outline a framework of multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms that incorporates
representation and computation. We argue that paradigmatic explanations in cognitive …

The central aim of this paper is to shed light on the nature of explanation in computational
neuroscience. I argue that computational models in this domain possess explanatory force …

Over the past four decades, philosophy of science has grown increasingly “local”. Concerns
have switched from general features of scientific practice to concepts, issues, and puzzles …

In a recent paper, Kaplan (Synthese 183: 339–373, 2011) takes up the task of extending
Craver's (Explaining the brain, 2007) mechanistic account of explanation in neuroscience to …

Explanatory AI (XAI) is on the rise, gaining enormous traction with the computational
community, policymakers, and philosophers alike. This article contributes to this debate by …

This paper examines the way in which sociology and biology continue to struggle to
understand why urban life creates high levels of mental disorder. The movement of the world …