Browsing Artículos by Author "Bechtel, William"
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Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology
Bechtel, William; Bich, Leonardo (Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2021-03-15)We advance an account that grounds cognition, specifically decision-making, in an activity all organisms as autonomous systems must perform to keep themselves viable-controlling their production mechanisms. Production ... -
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation
Bich, Leonardo; Bechtel, William (Springer, 2021-12)[EN]The new mechanists and the autonomy approach both aim to account for how biological phenomena are explained. One identifies appeals to how components of a mechanism are organized so that their activities produce a ... -
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms
Bich, Leonardo; Bechtel, William (Elsevier, 2022-06)[EN] 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 how components of mechanisms are organized ...