id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nodwxgtogravpds4a457wwd2pa William Bechtel Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science 2009 20 .pdf application/pdf 11048 706 48 philosophy of science both provide perspective on the explanatory project of cognitive Most philosophers who have engaged in cognitive science have their roots in philosophy of mind identifying cognitive operations at the appropriate level, and a new framework for understanding Given that talk of mechanisms is as ubiquitous in the cognitive sciences as it is in the biological sciences, it is natural to explore how well the accounts of mechanism developed for biological mechanism that has been so fruitful in biology extends quite well to cognitive science up to this mechanisms, we need to account for how representations carry information about contents. The information processing models that play an explanatory role in cognitive science, including control theory perspective to cognitive science. new heuristic strategies for identifying cognitive operations (Bechtel & Richardson, in press). mechanisms; advocated ways in which cognitive science might finally identify operations cognitive science has yet found the appropriate level of operations for mechanistic explanations ./cache/work_nodwxgtogravpds4a457wwd2pa.pdf ./txt/work_nodwxgtogravpds4a457wwd2pa.txt