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Kaiser, Marie I. and Krickel, Beate ORCID: 0000-0002-4657-0979 (2017). The Metaphysics of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena. Br. J. Philos. Sci., 68 (3). S. 745 - 780. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1464-3537

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Abstract

The central aim of this article is to specify the ontological nature of constitutive mechanistic phenomena (that is, of phenomena that are explained in constitutive mechanistic explanations). After identifying three criteria of adequacy that any plausible approach to constitutive mechanistic phenomena must satisfy, we present four different suggestions, found in the mechanistic literature, of what mechanistic phenomena might be. We argue that none of these suggestions meets the criteria of adequacy. According to our analysis, constitutive mechanistic phenomena are best understood as what we will call 'object-involving occurrents'. Furthermore, on the basis of this notion, we will clarify what distinguishes constitutive mechanistic explanations from etiological ones.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kaiser, Marie I. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Krickel, Beate UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-0979 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-220088
DOI:	10.1093/bjps/axv058
Journal or Publication Title:	Br. J. Philos. Sci.
Volume:	68
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 745 - 780
Date:	2017
Publisher:	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1464-3537
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language THINKING; RELEVANCE Multiple languages History & Philosophy Of Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/22008