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work_dvalon5c4vhjnkifr6rrvic7iu	Carl F. Craver	Role Functions, Mechanisms, and Hierarchy	2001	23	.pdf	application/pdf	9731	637	54	specifically mechanistic role functions, one that uses the characteristic active, spatial, first, because discovering an item's mechanistic role is one way of integrating it into a multilevel mechanism and, second, because integration In Section 4, I distinguish contextual, isolated, and constitutive descriptions of an item's activity in a multilevel The characteristic active, spatial, temporal, and hierarchical organization of mechanisms can be used to specify-more precisely than Cummins has-what mechanism's organization, also featured in Harvey's treatment, is understanding how the activities of these component entities are temporally Attributions of mechanistic role functions describe an item in terms of the properties or activities an item fits into the active, spatial, and temporal organization of a mechanism that we seek to understand. The analysis of mechanistic role functions produced by melding Cummins' account with work on the organization of mechanisms clarifies what One goal in describing hierarchically organized mechanisms is to integrate these different levels together into a description of one coherent 	./cache/work_dvalon5c4vhjnkifr6rrvic7iu.pdf	./txt/work_dvalon5c4vhjnkifr6rrvic7iu.txt