Knuuttila, Tarja and Loettgers, Andrea (2012) Synthetic Modeling and Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Recently, Bechtel and Abrahamsen have argued that mathematical models study the dynamics of mechanisms by recomposing the components and their operations into an appropriately organized system. We will study this claim through the practice of combinational modeling in circadian clock research. In combinational modeling experiments on model organisms and mathematical/computational models are combined with a new type of model—a synthetic model. While we appreciate Bechtel and Abrahamsen’s point that mathematical/computational models are used to provide dynamic mechanistic explanations, we think that the strategy of recomposition is more complicated than what Bechtel and Abrahamsen indicate. Moreover, as we will show, synthetic modeling as a kind of material recomposition strategy also points beyond the mechanistic paradigm.
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| Keywords: | Dynamic mechanistic explanations, mathematical models, synthetic models, genetic circuits, noise, modularity, integration | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Tarja Tellervo Knuuttila | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2013 21:06 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 May 2013 21:06 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 9764 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | October 2012 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9764 |
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