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work_jzynnsdngrajtabawvxgigzscy	Jeroen de Ridder	Mechanistic artefact explanation	2006	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8182	635	57	two different types of insight into an artefact's functioning, and (2) show how human action inevitably plays a role in artefact explanation. the face of it, mechanistic artefact explanations involve an unusual explanatory combination of human action and physical objects. general pattern of artefact explanation, which is provided by the second example. There is a gap of normativity between an artefact's proper function and its (actual) physical behaviour. strategy provides behavioural or functional understanding of an artefact, and the second A particular behaviour that needs explanation is explained by a description of the mechanism To sum up, my account of mechanistic artefact explanation includes two different complementary explanatory strategies. the artefact that needs explanation, decomposes it into constituent sub-behaviours, and then ascribes these sub-behaviours to structural components of the artefact. Structural and behavioural understanding of an artefact, or other mechanism, is useful from an explanatory point of view.	./cache/work_jzynnsdngrajtabawvxgigzscy.pdf	./txt/work_jzynnsdngrajtabawvxgigzscy.txt