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work_2pex2pj7xvcgjidl7e7v6v5fkm	Carlos Zednik	The Nature of Dynamical Explanation*	2011	26	.pdf	application/pdf	10772	703	43	has been framed as a difference in scientific explanation: whereas computationalist and connectionist explanations are mechanistic explanations, dynamical explanations take the form of covering-law explanations (for discussion, see van Gelder 1995, 1998; Clark 1997, 1998; Bechtel 1998; Bechtel Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Systems in Behavior and Cognition at Indiana The orchestrated functioning of the mechanism, manifested in patterns of change over time in properties of its parts and operations, is responsible for one or more phenomena" (Bechtel and Abrahamsen 2010, 323; see also Machamer et al. the general claim that "the explanatory goal of dynamical cognitive scientists is to provide covering-law explanations" (2008, 343). As a second example, consider Randall Beer's (2003) dynamical explanation of perceptual categorization in a simulated brain-body-environment system (fig. to explain how the observed active-scanning behavior (and thus, perceptual categorization) arises from the brain-body-environment system defined by the equations of the dynamical model.	./cache/work_2pex2pj7xvcgjidl7e7v6v5fkm.pdf	./txt/work_2pex2pj7xvcgjidl7e7v6v5fkm.txt