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According to Wikipedia, William Bechtel is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 until 2002 . Bechtel was also the chair of the Philosophy Department from 1999 until 2002 and was heavily involved with the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience program, serving at different times as Assistant Director and Director. Before that, he was at Georgia State. Bechtel earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and his BA from Kenyon College.

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Explanation: a mechanist alternative. (2005) (959)
Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research (2010) (784)
Top-down Causation Without Top-down Causes (2007) (418)
A companion to cognitive science (1999) (340)
Connectionism and the Mind (1991) (340)
Multiple Realizability Revisited: Linking Cognitive and Neural States (1999) (317)
Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience (2007) (299)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology (2005) (281)
Philosophy of Science : An Overview for Cognitive Science (1988) (259)
Integrating Scientific Disciplines (1986) (237)
Mechanism and Biological Explanation* (2011) (210)
Dynamic mechanistic explanation: computational modeling of circadian rhythms as an exemplar for cognitive science. (2010) (205)
Abstraction and the Organization of Mechanisms (2013) (197)
Connectionism and the mind: An introduction to parallel processing in networks (1991) (184)
Representations and Cognitive Explanations: Assessing the Dynamicist's Challenge in Cognitive Science (1998) (174)
Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks (2002) (169)
Explanatory Pluralism and Heuristic Identity Theory (2001) (146)
Levels of description and explanation in cognitive science (1994) (125)
Looking down, around, and up: Mechanistic explanation in psychology (2009) (111)
Mechanisms and psychological explanation (2007) (110)
Dynamical Models: An Alternative or Complement to Mechanistic Explanations? (2011) (109)
ATTRIBUTING RESPONSIBILITY TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS (1985) (105)
Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or, How Real Philosophy of Science is Done Conversations with William Bechtel ... [Et Al.] (1993) (102)
Biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy (2007) (97)
Representations and cognitive explanations: Assessing the dynamicist's challenge in cognitive scienc (1998) (91)
Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader (2001) (86)
The Nature of Scientific Integration (1986) (83)
Integrating sciences by creating new disciplines: The case of cell biology (1993) (76)
Decomposing the Mind-Brain: A Long-Term Pursuit (2002) (73)
The challenge of characterizing operations in the mechanisms underlying behavior. (2005) (61)
Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations (2006) (60)
Mechanisms in Cognitive Psychology: What Are the Operations? (2008) (60)
Circadian Rhythms and Mood Disorders: Are the Phenomena and Mechanisms Causally Related? (2015) (59)
Thinking Dynamically About Biological Mechanisms: Networks of Coupled Oscillators (2013) (58)
Investigating neural representations: the tale of place cells (2016) (57)
What is Psychological Explanation? (2019) (56)
Network analyses in systems biology: new strategies for dealing with biological complexity (2018) (54)
The Non-Redundant Contributions of Marr's Three Levels of Analysis for Explaining Information-Processing Mechanisms (2015) (54)
Can mechanistic explanation be reconciled with scale-free constitution and dynamics? (2015) (53)
Realism, instrumentalism, and the Intentional Stance* (1985) (51)
Aligning Multiple Research Techniques in Cognitive Neuroscience: Why Is It Important? (2002) (51)
Reduction, integration, and the unity of science: Natural, behavioral, and social sciences and the humanities (2007) (50)
The evolution of our understanding of the cell: a study in the dynamics of scientific progress. (1984) (46)
The Compatibility of Complex Systems and Reduction: A Case Analysis of Memory Research (2001) (46)
Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems (1992) (46)
Complex Biological Mechanisms : Cyclic , Oscillatory , and Autonomous (2008) (46)
Why Do Biologists Use So Many Diagrams? (2013) (45)
Rethinking Causality in Biological and Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control (2018) (45)
Reconceptualizations and Interfield Connections: The Discovery of the Link between Vitamins and Coenzymes (1984) (45)
Generalization and Discovery by Assuming Conserved Mechanisms: Cross‐Species Research on Circadian Oscillators (2009) (45)
The Downs and Ups of Mechanistic Research: Circadian Rhythm Research as an Exemplar (2010) (42)
Multiple realizability revisited (1997) (41)
Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science (2009) (41)
Phenomena and mechanisms: Putting the symbolic, connectionist, and dynamical systems debate in broader perspective (2006) (41)
Understanding endogenously active mechanisms: A scientific and philosophical challenge (2012) (39)
Complex Biological Mechanisms (2011) (39)
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology (2021) (35)
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition: Explanation: Mechanism, Modularity, and Situated Cognition (2008) (35)
Connectionism and rules and representation systems: Are they compatible? (1988) (33)
What Should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like (2002) (33)
Modules, Brain Parts, and Evolutionary Psychology (2003) (32)
Integrating neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology through a teleological conception of function (1996) (31)
Heuristic Identity Theory (or Back to the Future): The Mind-Body Problem Against the Background of Research Strategies in Cognitive Neuroscience (2020) (29)
Marr’s Computational Level and Delineating Phenomena (2018) (28)
Diagrams as Tools for Scientific Reasoning (2015) (28)
DECOMPOSING, RECOMPOSING, AND SITUATING CIRCADIAN MECHANISMS: THREE TASKS IN DEVELOPING MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS (2013) (27)
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2007) (27)
Molecules, Systems, and Behavior: Another View of Memory Consolidation (2009) (26)
Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science (1989) (25)
The Epistemology of Evidence in Cognitive Neuroscience (2003) (25)
Thirty years of Marr's Vision: Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science (2015) (24)
Epistemic issues in procuring evidence about the brain: The importance of research instruments and techniques (2001) (22)
Design sans adaptation (2015) (21)
Multiple levels of inquiry in cognitive science (1990) (21)
Analysing Network Models to Make Discoveries about Biological Mechanisms (2019) (20)
Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science (1998) (20)
CONTEMPORARY CONNECTIONISM: ARE THE NEW PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING MODELS COGNITIVE OR ASSOCIATIONIST? (1985) (19)
In Search of Mitochondrial Mechanisms: Interfield Excursions between Cell Biology and Biochemistry (2006) (19)
Scientists’ use of diagrams in developing mechanistic explanations: A case study from chronobiology (2014) (19)
The case for connectionism (1993) (19)
From molecules to behavior and the clinic: Integration in chronobiology. (2013) (18)
Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind: An Overview (2010) (18)
The Importance of Constraints and Control in Biological Mechanisms: Insights from Cancer Research (2018) (18)
Natural deduction in connectionist systems (1994) (17)
PET: Exploring the Myth and the Method (1997) (17)
The Endogenously Active Brain: The Need for an Alternative Cognitive Architecture (2013) (17)
From reduction back to higher levels (2008) (17)
Biochemistry: A Cross-Disciplinary Endeavor That Discovered a Distinctive Domain (1986) (16)
Generalizing Mechanistic Explanations Using Graph-Theoretic Representations (2015) (16)
Two Common Errors in Explaining Biological and Psychological Phenomena (1982) (15)
The cell: locus or object of inquiry? (2010) (14)
Realism, Instrumentalism, and the Intentional Stance (1985) (14)
Representing Time of Day in Circadian Clocks (2010) (14)
Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes (2010) (14)
Philosophy meets the neurosciences (2001) (14)
From Reactive to Endogenously Active Dynamical Conceptions of the Brain (2012) (13)
Using computational models to discover and understand mechanisms. (2016) (13)
Biological and Social Constraints on Cognitive Processes: The Need for Dynamical Interactions Between Levels of Inquiry (1994) (12)
Identity, Reduction, and Conserved Mechanisms: Perspectives from Circadian Rhythm Research (2010) (12)
Using the hierarchy of biological ontologies to identify mechanisms in flat networks (2017) (12)
Understanding Biological Mechanisms: Using Illustrations from Circadian Rhythm Research (2013) (12)
Explanation: Mechanism, Modularity, and Situated Cognition 1 (2006) (12)
Cognitive Biology: Surprising Model Organisms for Cognitive Science (2014) (12)
Cognitive Science: History (2001) (12)
How Can Philosophy Be a True Cognitive Science Discipline? (2010) (12)
Network Organization in Health and Disease: On Being a Reductionist and a Systems Biologist Too (2013) (11)
Resituating cognitive mechanisms within heterarchical networks controlling physiology and behavior (2019) (11)
Deciding on the Data: Epistemological Problems Surrounding Instruments and Research Techniques in Cell Biology (1994) (11)
Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference: Referring to localized cognitive operations in parts of dynamically active brains (2012) (11)
Mental Mechanisms: What are the Operations? (2005) (11)
Towards Mechanism 2.0: Expanding the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation (2016) (10)
Scientific Evidence: Creating and Evaluating Experimental Instruments and Research Techniques (1990) (10)
How To Do Things With Logic (1994) (10)
Diagramming Phenomena for Mechanistic Explanation (2012) (10)
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science: History and core themes (2012) (9)
Connectionism and the future of folk psychology (1992) (9)
Rethinking Causality in Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control Jason Winning and William Bechtel (2017) (9)
Systems Biology: Negotiating Between Holism and Reductionism (2017) (9)
In Defense of a Naturalistic Concept of Health (1985) (9)
Gall's legacy revisited: Decomposition and localization in cognitive neuroscience (2004) (9)
Hierarchy and levels: analysing networks to study mechanisms in molecular biology (2020) (9)
WHAT KNOWLEDGE MUST BE IN THE HEAD IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE LANGUAGE ? (1993) (9)
Imagining Mechanisms with Diagrams (2016) (8)
Decomposing intentionality: Perspectives on intentionality drawn from language research with two species of chimpanzees (1993) (8)
Representing Time in Scientific Diagrams (2014) (8)
Comprar A Companion to Cognitive Science | William Bechtel | 9781557865427 | Wiley (2008) (8)
Explaining top-down causation (away) (2005) (8)
A bridge between cognitive science and neuroscience: The functional architecture of mind (1983) (8)
Dynamicists versus computationalists: Whither mechanists? (1998) (8)
From Molecules to Networks: Adoption of Systems Approaches in Circadian Rhythm Research (2013) (7)
Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences (2010) (7)
The Path Beyond First‐Order Connectionism (1993) (7)
Addressing the Vitalist’s Challenge to Mechanistic Science: Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation (2013) (7)
Remarks on Fodor on having concepts (2004) (6)
Explaining visually using mechanism diagrams (2017) (6)
Mechanists Must be Holists Too! Perspectives from Circadian Biology (2016) (6)
Mechanistic explanation and the nature-nurture controversy (2005) (6)
Explaining features of fine-grained phenomena using abstract analyses of phenomena and mechanisms: two examples from chronobiology (2017) (6)
Symbolic versus Subsymbolic (2006) (6)
The Life of Cognitive Science (2017) (6)
Sketching Biological Phenomena and Mechanisms (2017) (6)
Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction (2014) (6)
Control mechanisms: Explaining the integration and versatility of biological organisms (2022) (6)
Systematicity and the Need for Encapsulated Representations (2014) (5)
Directions in Connectionist Research: Tractable Computations Without Syntactically Structured Representations (1997) (5)
Psycholinguistics as a case of cross-disciplinary research: Symposium introduction (1987) (5)
HIT on the Psychometric Approach (2011) (5)
Top-Down Causation in Biology and Neuroscience (2017) (5)
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors (2021) (5)
Mental Mechanisms, Autonomous Systems, and Moral Agency (2007) (5)
Beyond machine-like mechanisms (2020) (4)
Top-Down Causation in Biology and Neuroscience Control Hierarchies (2017) (4)
Consciousness and complexity: Evolutionary perspectives on the mind-body problem (1983) (4)
New insights into the nature of science: What does Hull's evolutionary epistemology teach us? (1988) (4)
Fermentation Theory: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions (1988) (4)
Consciousness: Perspectives from symbolic and connectionist AI (1995) (3)
Explaining Human Freedom and Dignity Mechanistically: From Receptive to Active Mechanisms (2007) (3)
Relating Bayes to cognitive mechanisms (2011) (3)
Autonomous Psychology: What It Should and Should Not Entail (1984) (3)
Connectionism and interlevel relations (1988) (3)
Interfield Connections and Psychology (1993) (3)
Beyond the exclusively propositional era (1990) (3)
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation (2021) (3)
Philosophy of Neuroscience (2022) (3)
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms. (2022) (3)
Using Diagrams to Reason About Biological Mechanisms (2018) (3)
From parts to mechanisms: research heuristics for addressing heterogeneity in cancer genetics (2019) (2)
Rethinking Psychiatric Disorders in Terms of Heterarchical Networks of Control Mechanisms (2020) (2)
Decentering Cognition (2020) (2)
Studying the thinking of non-human animals (1992) (2)
Being Emergence vs. Pattern Emergence (2019) (2)
Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: A Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective (2021) (2)
Review of Biological Autonomy (2016) (2)
Data Journeys Beyond Databases in Systems Biology: Cytoscape and NDEx (2020) (2)
Some Virtues of Modeling With Both Hands (2009) (2)
Living machines (2019) (2)
Rethinking Causality in Biological and Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control (2018) (2)
Consciousness : Perspectives from Symbolic and Connectionist (1994) (1)
Book Review:The Cells of the Body: A History of Somatic Cell Genetics Henry Harris (1996) (1)
Comprar Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks | William Bechtel | 9780631207139 | Wiley (2008) (1)
Science as a Process. David L. Hull (1991) (1)
Figuring out what is happening: the discovery of two electrophysiological phenomena (2022) (1)
The Mind Incarnate. LAWRENCE A. SHAPIRO. Cambridge, MA, and London, UK. (2006) (1)
Bill Wimsatt on Multiple Ways of Getting at the Complexity of Nature (2006) (1)
Understanding the Brain as an Endogenously Active Mechanism (2010) (1)
What Happens to Accounts of Mind-Brain Relations If We Forego an Architecture of Rules and Representations? (1986) (1)
Currents in connectionism (1993) (1)
The Pathogenesis of Spondylolysis (1982) (1)
Investigating neural representations: the tale of place cells (2014) (1)
Human Cloning (1998) (1)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: Preface (2005) (1)
Studies of categorization: A review essay of Neisser's ‘concepts and conceptual development’ and Hamad's ‘categorical perception’ (1988) (1)
1 History and core themes (2012) (1)
A Phylogenetic Perspective on Distributed Decision-Making Mechanisms (2020) (1)
: Negotiating between Holism and Reductionism (2015) (0)
Philosophy of Science the Logical Structure of Science the Deductive-nomological Model of Explanation and Hypothetico-deductive Model of Theory Development (0)
Reductionistic Explanations of Cognitive Information Processing: Bottoming Out in Neurochemistry (2022) (0)
From parts to mechanisms: research heuristics for addressing heterogeneity in cancer genetics (2019) (0)
New Knowledge: The Mechanisms of the Cytoplasm (2005) (0)
CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia - eScholarship (2008) (0)
Diagrams as Vehicles for Scientific Reasoning (2013) (0)
Explanation without Laws : The Mechanist Alternative p . 1 Explanation : The Mechanist Alternative (2004) (0)
An AI-Based Philosophy of Science. (1990) (0)
Roles of Diagrams in Computational Modeling of Mechanisms (2013) (0)
Design sans adaptation (2014) (0)
Critiques: Presenting Objections (2014) (0)
Discovering autoinhibition as a design principle for the control of biological mechanisms. (2022) (0)
Diagrams as Tools for Scientific Reasoning (2014) (0)
Networks and Dynamics: Twenty-First-Century Neuroscience (2019) (0)
Schaffner on Levels and Selves (2020) (0)
Acknowledgements (2013) (0)
Explaining features of fine-grained phenomena using abstract analyses of phenomena and mechanisms: two examples from chronobiology (2017) (0)
Explaining Cellular Phenomena through Mechanisms (2005) (0)
Information-Theoretic Philosophy of Mind (2016) (0)
Can we forego representations (2002) (0)
Science History & Values A Guide to the Culture of Science, Technology and Medicine Paul T. Durbin (1981) (0)
The Rumelhart Prize at 10 (2010) (0)
History of Cognitive Science and Computational Modeling (2006) (0)
Review : Integrating Scientific Disciplines (2011) (0)
Critiques: The Essential Preparation (2014) (0)
Responsibility and Decision Making in the Era of Neural Networks (1996) (0)
Learning, reward, and cognitive differences (1988) (0)
Valid Argument Forms (2014) (0)
Representing Time in Scientific Diagrams.cogsci.2.5 (2014) (0)
Mechanists Must be Holists Too! Perspectives from Circadian Biology (2016) (0)
Philosophy of Biology Fall 2011, Tues., Thurs., 12:30-1:50 pm (2011) (0)
First page preview (2006) (0)
CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia (2008) (0)
Creating New Instruments and Research Techniques for Discovering Cell Mechanisms (2005) (0)
Remarks on Fodor on having concepts. Author's reply (2004) (0)
Teaching the How of Cognitive Science: The Inquiry Website (2003) (0)
A rare ROS regulation triggers apoptosis versus necrosis in acute pancreatitis (2012) (0)
Stephan Strasser , Understanding and Explanation: Basic Ideas Concerning the Humanity of the Human Sciences . Reviewed by (1986) (0)
Exercise book to accompany how to do things with logic (1994) (0)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: Entering the Terra Incognita between Biochemistry and Cytology: Putting New Research Tools to Work in the 1940s (2005) (0)
Comprar A Companion to Cognitive Science | William Bechtel | 9780631218517 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Selective Biographies of Major Contributors to Cognitive Science (2017) (0)
Diagramming Phenomena for Mechanistic Explanation - eScholarship (2012) (0)
Using the hierarchy of biological ontologies to identify mechanisms in flat networks (2017) (0)
Chapter 13. Enriching the Strategies for Creating Mechanistic Explanations in Biology (2019) (0)
Brodmann's Brain Mapping and Multiple Realization (2005) (0)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: Giving Cell Biology an Institutional Identity (2005) (0)
Representations: New approaches to old problems (2020) (0)
How many and where? An analysis of three texts in three hands in Stockholm Islandica perg. nr. 5 folio (2019) (0)
Belief and Cognitive Psychology. (1989) (0)
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein (2022) (0)
Network analyses in systems biology: new strategies for dealing with biological complexity (2017) (0)
Books for review and for listing here should be addressed to Emily Zakin, Review Editor, Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 (2002) (0)
Explaining Human Freedom and Dignity Mechanistically (2007) (0)
Enriching the Strategies for Creating Mechanistic Explanations in Biology (2016) (0)
0 Defending Against a Critique (2014) (0)
Understanding endogenously active mechanisms: A scientific and philosophical challenge (2012) (0)
Editorial (2004) (0)
PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSES OF LANGUAGE (2013) (0)
10. The Problem of Noncounterfactual Conditionals The Problem of Noncounterfactual Conditionals (pp. 676-688) (2009) (0)
Figuring out what is happening: the discovery of two electrophysiological phenomena (2022) (0)
How To Do Things With Logic Workbook: Workbook with Exercises (2014) (0)
From Reduction Back to Higher Levels - eScholarship (2008) (0)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Locus of Cell Mechanisms: Terra Incognita between Cytology and Biochemistry (2005) (0)
Thinking Dynamically About Biological Mechanisms: Networks of Coupled Oscillators (2012) (0)
Owen Flanagan , The Science of Mind . Reviewed by (1985) (0)
Diagrammatic Cognition: Discovery and Design (2013) (0)
To appear in P. Calvo and J. Symons (ed.) Routledge companion to philosophy of psychology. London: Routledge What is Psychological Explanation? (2008) (0)
Constructing diagrams to understand phenomena and mechanisms (2016) (0)
Philosophy of Cell Biology (2019) (0)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: Introduction: Cell Mechanisms and Cell Biology (2005) (0)
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience. By Jonathan D. Moreno and Jay Schulkin. New York: Columbia University Press. $30.00. vii + 270 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780231177368 (hc); 9780231547109 (eb). 2020. (2020) (0)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: References (2005) (0)

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