Mechanistic and non-mechanistic varieties of dynamical models in cognitive science: Explanatory power, understanding, and the ‘mere description’ worry

R.R. Gervais

doi:10.1007/s11229-014-0548-5

Mechanistic and non-mechanistic varieties of dynamical models in cognitive science: Explanatory power, understanding, and the ‘mere description’ worry

R.R. Gervais

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-66
Journal	Synthese
Volume	192
Issue number	1
Early online date	6 Sept 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0548-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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