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

Published:2014-09-06 Issue:1 Volume:192 Page:43-66
ISSN:0039-7857
Container-title:Synthese
language:en
Short-container-title:Synthese

Author:

Gervais Raoul

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Social Sciences,Philosophy

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11229-014-0548-5.pdf

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