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Interventionist Omissions : A Critical Case Study of Mechanistic Explanation in Biology Fagan, Melinda Bonnie 2016 Philosophy of Science , Vol. 83 , Issue 5 , S. 1082 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0031-8248 | 1539-767X Abstract
It is widely assumed that mechanistic explanations are causal explanations. Many prominent new mechanists endorse interventionism as the correct analysis of explanatory causal models in biology and other fields. This article argues that interventionism is not entirely satisfactory in this regard. A case study of Jacob and Monod’s operon model shows that at least some important mechanistic explanations in biology present significant contrasts with the interventionist account. This result motivates a more inclusive approach to mechanistic explanation, allowing for noncausal aspects.
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