Zednik, Carlos (2011) The Nature of Dynamical Explanation. Philosophy of Science, 78 (2). pp. 238-263.
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Abstract
The received view of dynamical explanation is that dynamical cognitive science seeks to provide covering-law explanations of cognitive phenomena. By analyzing three prominent examples of dynamicist research, I show that the received view is misleading: some dynamical explanations are mechanistic explanations and in this way resemble computational and connectionist explanations. Interestingly, these dynamical explanations invoke the mathematical framework of dynamical systems theory to describe mechanisms far more complex and distributed than
the ones typically considered by philosophers. Therefore, contemporary dynamicist research reveals the need for a more sophisticated account of mechanistic explanation.
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| Keywords: | dynamical systems theory, mechanistic explanation, extended mind, anti-representationalism, decomposition | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Laws of Nature |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Carlos Zednik | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2018 03:27 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Jun 2018 03:27 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 14782 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Philosophy of Science Association | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/... | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Laws of Nature |
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| Date: | April 2011 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 238-263 | ||||||
| Volume: | 78 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14782 |
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