William P. Bechtel (bechtel-wp)

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Bibliography

Abrahamsen, Adele and Bechtel, William P. 2006. “Phenomena and Mechanisms: Putting the Symbolic, Connectionist, and Dynamical Systems Debate in Broader Perspective.” in Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, edited by Robert J. Stainton, pp. 159–186. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 7. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Abrahamsen, Adele and Bechtel, William P. 2012. “From Reactive to Endogenously Active Dynamical Conceptions of the Brain.” in Philosophy of Behavioral Biology, edited by Kathryn S. Plaisance and Thomas A. C. Reydon, pp. 329–366. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 282. Dordrecht: Springer.
Abrahamsen, Adele, Sheredos, Benjamin and Bechtel, William P. 2017. “Models of Mechanisms.” in The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy, edited by Stuart S. Glennan and Phyllis Illari, pp. 238–254. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Bechtel, William P. 1983. “A Bridge between Cognitive Science and Neuroscience: The Functional Architecture of Mind.” Philosophical Studies 44: 319–330.
Bechtel, William P. 1984. “Autonomous Psychology: What it should and should not Entail.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 43–55. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Bechtel, William P. 1985a. “Are the New PDP Models of Cognition Cognitivist or Associationist?” Behaviorism 13: 53–61.
Bechtel, William P. 1985b. “Realism, Instrumentalism, and the Intentional Stance.” Cognitive Science 9: 265–292.
Bechtel, William P. 1986. “What Happens to Accounts of Mind-Brain Relations If We Forego an Architecture of Rules and Representations?” in PSA 1986: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Peter K. Machamer, pp. 159–171. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Bechtel, William P. 1987. “Connectionism and the philosophy of mind.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 26(suppl.): 17–41.
Bechtel, William P. 1988a. Philosophy of Mind: An Overview for Cognitive Science. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Bechtel, William P. 1988b. “Connectionism and Rules and Representation Systems: Are They Compatible?” Philosophical Psychology 1: 5–16.
Bechtel, William P. 1988c. “Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind: An Overview.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 26(suppl.): 17–41. Reprinted in Horgan and Tienson (1991, 30–59).
Bechtel, William P. 1988d. “Fermentation Theory: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions.” in Scrutinizing Science. Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, edited by Arthur Donovan, Laurens [Larry] Laudan, and Rachel Laudan, pp. 163–180. Synthese Library n. 193. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Bechtel, William P. 1990. “Scientific Evidence: Creating and Evaluating Experimental Instruments and Research Techniques.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 559–572. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Bechtel, William P. 1993. “The Case for Connectionism.” Philosophical Studies 71: 119–154.
Bechtel, William P. 1994a. “Levels of Description and Explanation in Cognitive Science.” Minds and Machines 4: 1–25.
Bechtel, William P. 1994b. “Deciding on the Data: Epistemological Problems Surrounding Instruments and Research Techniques in Cell Biology.” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 167–178. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Bechtel, William P. 1996. “What should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 121–144. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Bechtel, William P., ed. 1998. A Companion to Cognitive Science. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164535.
Bechtel, William P. 2007. “Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations.” in The Matter of Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction, edited by Maurice K. D. Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong, pp. 172–198. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Bechtel, William P. 2009. “Molecules, Systems, and Behavior: Another View of Memory Consolidation.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, edited by John Bickle, pp. 13–40. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.001.0001.
Bechtel, William P. 2012a. “Identity, Reduction, and Conserved Mechanisms: Perspectives from Circadian Rhythm Research.” in New Perspectives on Type Identity. The Mental and the Physical, edited by Simone Gozzano and Christopher S. Hill, pp. 43–65. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bechtel, William P. 2012b. “Referring to Localized Cognitive Operations in Parts of Dynamically Active Brains.” in Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference, edited by Athanassios Raftopoulos and Peter K. Machamer, pp. 262–284. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bechtel, William P. 2013. “From Molecules to Networks: Adoption of Systems Approaches in Circadian Rhythm Research.” in New Challenges to the Philosophy of Science, edited by Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Thomas E. Uebel, and Gregory R. Wheeler, pp. 211–224. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 4. Berlin: Springer.
Bechtel, William P. 2016. “Using Computational Models to Discover and Understand Mechanisms.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 56: 113–121.
Bechtel, William P. 2017. “Top-Down Causation in Biology and Neuroscience: Control Hierarchies.” in Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation, edited by Michele Paolini Paoletti and Francesco Orilia, pp. 203–224. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315638577.
Bechtel, William P. and Abrahamsen, Adele. 1990a. Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Bechtel, William P. and Abrahamsen, Adele. 1990b. “Beyond the Exclusively Propositional Era.” Synthese 82: 223–253.
Bechtel, William P. and Abrahamsen, Adele. 1993. “Connectionism and the Future of Folk Psychology.” in Natural and Artificial Minds, edited by Robert G. Burton, pp. 69–100. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. Reprinted in Christensen and Turner (1993, 340–367).
Bechtel, William P. and Abrahamsen, Adele. 2009. “Decomposing, Recomposing, and Situating Circadian Mechanism: Three Tasks in Developing Mechanistic Explanations.” in Reduction. Between the Mind and the Brain, edited by Alexander Hieke and Hannes Leitgeb, pp. 177–190. Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (new series) n. 12. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Bechtel, William P. and Abrahamsen, Adele. 2010. “Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation: Computational Modeling of Circadian Rhythms as an Exemplar for Cognitive Science.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41(3): 321–333.
Bechtel, William P. and Bollhagen, Andrew. 2019. “Philosophy of Cell Biology.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/cell-biology/.
Bechtel, William P. and Graham, George, eds. 1998. A Companion to Cognitive Science. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Bechtel, William P. and Hamilton, Andrew. 2007. “Reduction, Integration, and the Unity of Science: Natural, Behavioral, and Social Sciences and the Humanities.” in General Philosophy of Science. Focal Issues, edited by Theo A. F. Kuipers, pp. 377–430. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Bechtel, William P. and Herschbach, Mitchell. 2010. “Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences.” in Philosophies of the Sciences. A Guide, edited by Fritz Allhoff, pp. 239–261. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444315578.
Bechtel, William P. and Mundale, Jennifer. 1999. “Multiple Realizability Revisited: Linking Cognitive and Neural States.” Philosophy of Science 66(2): 175–207.
Bechtel, William P. and Richardson, Robert C. 1983. “Consciousness and Complexity: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Mind-Body Problem.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 61: 378–395.
Bechtel, William P. and Richardson, Robert C. 1992. “Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems.” in Emergence or Reduction? Prospects for Nonreductive Physicalism, edited by Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, and Jaegwon Kim, pp. 257–288. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Bechtel, William P. and Stiffler, Eric. 1978. “Observationality: Quine and the Epistemological Nihilists.” in PSA 1978: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ian Hacking, pp. 93–108. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Bechtel, William P. and Winning, Jason. 2016. “Information-Theoretic Philosophy of Mind.” in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, edited by Luciano Floridi, pp. 347–360. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Bechtel, William P. and Wright, Cory D. 2009. “What is Psychological Explanation?” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, edited by John Symons and Paco Calvo, pp. 113–130. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Craver, Carl F. and Bechtel, William P. 2007. “Top-Down Causation without Top-Down Causes.” Biology and Philosophy 22(4): 547–563.
Mundale, Jennifer and Bechtel, William P. 1996. “Integrating Neuroscience, Psychology, and Evolutionary Biology through a Teleological Conception of Function.” Minds and Machines 6: 481–505.
Shagrir, Oron and Bechtel, William P. 2017. “Marr’s Computational Level and Delineating Phenomena.” in Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science, edited by David Michael Kaplan, pp. 190–214. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199685509.001.0001.
Stufflebeam, R. S. and Bechtel, William P. 1997. “PET: Exploring the Myth and the Method.” Philosophy of Science 64: 95–106.
Waskan, Jonathan and Bechtel, William P. 1997. “Directions in Connectionist Research: Tractable Computations without Syntactically Structured Representations.” Metaphilosophy 28: 31–62.
Winning, Jason and Bechtel, William P. 2019. “Being Emergence vs. Pattern Emergence: Complexity, Control and Goal-Directedness in Biological Systems.” in The Routledge Handbook of Emergence, edited by Sophie C. Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry, and Tom Lancaster, pp. 134–144. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Wright, Cory D. and Bechtel, William P. 2007. “Mechanisms and Psychological Explanation.” in Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, edited by Paul R. Thagard, pp. 31–80. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 12. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.

Further References

Christensen, Scott M. and Turner, Dale R., eds. 1993. Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Horgan, Terence E. and Tienson, John L., eds. 1991. Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind. Studies in Cognitive Systems n. 9. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.