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1. www.cambridge.org › core › books2 - The mechanistic view of life - Cambridge University Press ...

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   Apr 5, 2014 · In Descartes’ mechanistic conception of the world, all of nature works according to mechanical laws, and everything in the material world can be explained in terms of the arrangement and movements of its parts.

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2. royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › 10Dominance in humans | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ...

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   Jan 10, 2022 · In this review, we provide an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of dominance as a concept within evolutionary biology, discuss the challenges of applying it to humans and consider alternative theoretical accounts which assert that dominance is relevant to understanding status in humans.

3. www.cbc.ca › radio › ideasNeuroscientist argues the left side of our brains have taken ...

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   Oct 22, 2021 · Neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist argues that Western society has become too dominated by the left hemisphere of our brains — obsessed with data and sorting things into categories. Meanwhile, the...

4. royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › 10The dynamics of dominance: open questions, challenges and ...

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   Jan 10, 2022 · This impressive literature reveals why some dominance relationships are more likely to form than others, but we still do not know what processes produce the dynamics in dyadic relationships that give rise to this dynamic stability.

5. link.springer.com › article › 10What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms - Springer

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   Sep 13, 2011 · There are three reasons why we follow Bechtel and Abrahamsen (2005 p422) in saying mechanisms are ‘responsible for a phenomenon’. The first reason is the importance of the phenomenon for mechanistic explanation. Mechanistic explanation succeeds when the mechanism discovered and described is the mechanism responsible for the phenomenon.

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6. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Processes, Mechanisms, and Mechanistic Models | SpringerLink

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   Aug 10, 2022 · A mechanistic model is not something to be found “out there”, but the product of given epistemic activity conducted by researchers and the result of a cognitive process. A given mechanism can be represented by different mechanistic models.

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   Why is mechanistic explanation important?

   • The first reason is the importance of the phenomenon for mechanistic explanation. Mechanistic explanation succeeds when the mechanism discovered and described is the mechanism responsible for the phenomenon.

   What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms - Springer

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   Do we have a better description of a mechanism?

   • Before this point, we have little more than a better description of the phenomenon to be explained. Mechanism discovery is gradual, so there will be no sharp line between partial and full descriptions of mechanisms. The crucial point is where scientists have good reason to suppose they have got hold of the actual mechanism operating.

   What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms - Springer

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   What is the difference between a mechanistic system and a mechanism?

   • The mechanism per se is not explanatory; the mechanistic system, is insofar as it represents the target mechanism, which, in turn, imposes some constraints on the elaboration of the mechanistic model.

   Processes, Mechanisms, and Mechanistic Models | SpringerLink

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   What is a mechanistic model?

   • A mechanistic model is not something to be found “out there”, but the product of given epistemic activity conducted by researchers and the result of a cognitive process. A given mechanism can be represented by different mechanistic models.

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   How do neo-mechanists distinguish between mechanisms and mechanistic models?

   • One of the fundamental steps taken by the neo-mechanists is to distinguish between mechanisms and mechanistic models. Whereas “mechanism” is a notion indicating a given system made of parts existing in the world, a “mechanistic model” is its representation – or, rather, one of many possible representations of that mechanism.

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   Why is organization important in a mechanistic approach?

   • In the mechanistic approach organization gives the ongoing conditions that allow the entities and activities to produce the phenomenon. ‘Ongoing’ is important. Initial conditions for laws matter only at the beginning, while organization matters throughout the operation of a mechanism.

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8. socialsci.libretexts.org › Bookshelves › Psychology18.2: What are Mechanistic meta-theories of human development?

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   Nov 25, 2020 · Mechanistic meta-theories can be understood using the metaphor of a machine. It is as if humans are composed and change the same way as machines. As summarized in Table 7.1, people are assumed to be made up of parts that can be removed and studied apart from the rest of them.