American philosopher of science who has developed the mechanistic account of scientific explanation and applied it to cognitive science and biology.
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: mechanistic explanation in cell biology — science explains phenomena by identifying the mechanisms that produce them, decomposing them into component parts and operations. Mental Mechanisms: the same framework applied to cognitive science. Contributed to the philosophy of connectionism.
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