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  1. Thinking about mechanisms.Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden & Carl F. Craver - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (1):1-25.
    The concept of mechanism is analyzed in terms of entities and activities, organized such that they are productive of regular changes. Examples show how mechanisms work in neurobiology and molecular biology. Thinking in terms of mechanisms provides a new framework for addressing many traditional philosophical issues: causality, laws, explanation, reduction, and scientific change.
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  2. Activities and causation: The metaphysics and epistemology of mechanisms.Peter Machamer - 2004 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18 (1):27 – 39.
    This article deals with mechanisms conceived as composed of entities and activities. In response to many perplexities about the nature of activities, a number of arguments are developed concerning their epistemic and ontological status. Some questions concerning the relations between cause and causal explanation and mechanisms are also addressed.
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  3. Science, Values, and Objectivity.Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.) - 2004 - University of Pittsburgh Press.
    Few people, if any, still argue that science in all its aspects is a value-free endeavor. At the very least, values affect decisions about the choice of research problems to investigate and the uses to which the results of research are applied. But what about the actual doing of science? -/- As Science, Values, and Objectivity reveals, the connections and interactions between values and science are quite complex. The essays in this volume identify the crucial values that play a role (...)
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    The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science.Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.) - 2002 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
    This volume presentsa definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science.
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    Descartes's Changing Mind.Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire - 2009 - Princeton University Press. Edited by J. E. McGuire.
    Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture of the development of Cartesian science, epistemology, and metaphysics. No changes in Descartes's (...)
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    Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives.Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.) - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants. This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known philosophers of science presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructionist perspective while also indicating the need for a (...)
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    Cognitive and social values.Peter Machamer & Heather Douglas - 1999 - Science & Education 8 (1):45-54.
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    Feyerabend and Galileo: The interaction of theories, and the reinterpretation of experience.Peter K. Machamer - 1973 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 4 (1):1-46.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Galileo.Peter Machamer (ed.) - 1998 - Cambridge University Press.
    Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of (...)
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    Mechanistic Information and Causal Continuity.Jim Bogen & Peter Machamer - 2011 - In Phyllis McKay Illari Federica Russo (ed.), Causality in the Sciences. Oxford University Press.
    Some biological processes move from step to step in a way that cannot be completely understood solely in terms of causes and correlations. This paper develops a notion of mechanistic information that can be used to explain the continuities of such processes. We compare them to processes that do not involve information. We compare our conception of mechanistic information to some familiar notions including Crick’s idea of genetic information, Shannon-Weaver information, and Millikan’s biosemantic information.
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    Activities and causation.Peter Machamer - unknown
    This paper details the ontological and epistemic character of activties that occur in mechanisms. It explains why they are sufficient to handle the problems of causation.
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    Descartes’s changing mind.Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (3):398-419.
    Descartes is always concerned about knowledge. However, the Galileo affair in 1633, the reactions to his Discourse on method, and later his need to reply to objections to his Meditations provoked crises in Descartes’s intellectual development the import of which has not been sufficiently recognized. These events are the major reasons why Descartes’s philosophical position concerning how we know and what we may know is radically different at the end of his life from what it was when he began. We (...)
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    Theory and Method in the Neurosciences.Peter McLaughlin, Peter Machamer & Rick Grush (eds.) - 2001 - Pittsburgh University Press.
  14. Philosophy of science: An overview for educators.Peter Machamer - 1998 - Science & Education 7 (1):1-11.
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    Motion and Time, Space and Matter.Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull (eds.) - 1976 - Ohio State University Press.
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    Rendering clinical psychology an evidence‐based scientific discipline: a case study.Drozdstoj St Stoyanov, Peter K. Machamer & Kenneth F. Schaffner - 2012 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (1):149-154.
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    A model of intelligibility in science: Using Galileo's balance as a model for understanding the motion of bodies.Peter Machamer & Andrea Woody - 1994 - Science & Education 3 (3):215-244.
  18. (1 other version)Aristotle on Natural Place and Natural Motion.Peter K. Machamer - 1978 - Isis 69 (3):37-387.
     
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  19. Neuroscience, learning and the return to behaviorism.Peter K. Machamer - 2009 - In John Bickle (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 166--178.
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    The challenge of psychiatric nosology and diagnosis.Drozdstoj Stoyanov, Peter K. Machamer, Kenneth F. Schaffner & Rayito Rivera-Hernández - 2012 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (3):704-709.
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    Newton and the mechanical philosophy: Gravitation as the balance of the heavens.Peter Machamer, J. E. Mcguire & Hylarie Kochiras - 2012 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 50 (3):370-388.
    We argue that Isaac Newton really is best understood as being in the tradition of the Mechanical Philosophy and, further, that Newton saw himself as being in this tradition. But the tradition as Newton understands it is not that of Robert Boyle and many others, for whom the Mechanical Philosophy was defined by contact action and a corpuscularean theory of matter. Instead, as we argue in this paper, Newton interpreted and extended the Mechanical Philosophy's slogan “matter and motion” in reference (...)
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    The Concept of the Individual an d the Idea (l) of Method in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy.Peter Machamer - 2000 - In Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 81.
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  23. Phenomena, data and theories: a special issue of Synthese.Peter Machamer - 2011 - Synthese 182 (1):1-5.
    The papers collected here are the result of an INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: Data · Phenomena · Theories: What’s the notion of a scientific phenomenon good for? held in Heidelberg in September 2008. The event was organized by the research group Causality, Cognition, and the Constitution of Scientific Phenomena in cooperation with Philosophy Department at the University of Heidelberg (Peter McLaughlin and Andreas Kemmerling) and the IWH Heidelberg. The symposium was supported by the Emmy-Noether-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and by Stiftung Universitat Heidelebrg (...)
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    (1 other version)Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics.Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.) - 2007 - Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Pre.
    Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking about Causes brings together top philosophers from the United States and Europe to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought.
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    A Brief Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.Peter Machamer - 2002 - In Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 1–17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Logical Positivism to Logical Empiricism: 1918‐55 New Paradigms and Scientific Change: Late 1950s through the 1970s Contemporary Foci and Future Directions.
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    Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference.Athanassios Raftopoulos & Peter K. Machamer (eds.) - 2012 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    One of the perennial themes in philosophy is the problem of our access to the world around us; do our perceptual systems bring us into contact with the world as it is or does perception depend upon our individual conceptual frameworks? This volume of new essays examines reference as it relates to perception, action and realism, and the questions which arise if there is no neutral perspective or independent way to know the world. The essays discuss the nature of referring, (...)
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  27. In Quest for Scientific Psychiatry: Toward Bridging the Explanatory Gap.Drozdstoj Stoyanov, Peter Machamer & Kenneth Schaffner - 2013 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3):261-273.
    The contemporary epistemic status of mental health disciplines does not allow the cross validation of mental disorders among various genetic markers, biochemical pathway or mechanisms, and clinical assessments in neuroscience explanations. We attempt to provide a meta-empirical analysis of the contemporary status of the cross-disciplinary issues existing between neuro-biology and psychopathology. Our case studies take as an established medical mode an example cross validation between biological sciences and clinical cardiology in the case of myocardial infarction. This is then contrasted with (...)
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    Neuroscienze e natura della filosofia.Peter Machamer & Justin Sytsma - 2005 - Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (3):495-514.
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  29. Causality and Explanation in Descartes' Natural Philosophy.Peter Machamer - 1976 - In Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull (eds.), Motion and Time, Space and Matter. Ohio State University Press. pp. 168--199.
     
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    Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time.Peter Machamer & Brian Hepburn - 2004 - Science & Education 13 (4-5):333-347.
  31. Studies in Perception.Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull - 1979 - Philosophy of Science 46 (4):657-659.
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    Scientific normativity as non-epistemic: A hidden Kuhnian legacy.Peter Machamer & Lisa Osbeck - 2003 - Social Epistemology 17 (1):3 – 11.
  33. Explaining mechanisms.Peter Machamer - unknown
    An overview of how mechanisms work in explanations.
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  34. Philosophy and the Brain Sciences.Peter Machamer & Justin Sytsma - 2009 - Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2):353-374.
    What are the differences between philosophy and science, or between the methods of philosophy and the methods of science? Unlike some philosophers we do not find philosophy and the methods of philosophy to be sui generis. Science, and in particular neuroscience, has much to tell us about the nature of the world and the concepts that we must use to understand and explain it. Yet science cannot function well without reflective analysis of the concepts, methods, and practices that constitute it. (...)
     
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    Preface.J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer - 2009 - In Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind. Princeton University Press.
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    Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001.Karen Arnold, James Bogen, Ingo Brigandt, Joe Cain, Paul Griffiths, Catherine Kendig, James Lennox, Alan C. Love, Peter Machamer, Jacqueline Sullivan, Sandra D. Mitchell, David Papineau, Karola Stotz & D. M. Walsh - 2001
    Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001.
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    Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind.Martin Carrier & Peter Machamer (eds.) - 1997 - University of Pittsburgh Press.
    Leading scholars in the fields of philosophy and the sciences of the mind have contributed to this newest volume in the prestigious Pittsburgh-Konstanz series. Among the problem areas discussed are folk psychology, meanings as conceptual structures, functional and qualitative properties of colors, the role of conscious mental states, representation and mental content, the impact of connectionism on the philosophy of the mind, and supervenience, emergence, and realization. Most of the essays are followed by commentaries that reflect ongoing debates in the (...)
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    A recent drawing of the theory/observation distinction.Peter K. Machamer - 1971 - Philosophy of Science 38 (3):413-414.
    James Cornman has recently offered a definition for ‘observation term’ which he takes to meet most, if not all, of the standard objections to such definitions. He also employs this definition against certain materialists, but in what follows I wish only to address myself to the proposed definition. I shall argue that he has failed to show any logical difference between “observation terms,” as he defines them, and terms which are not so classified. I shall show that his definition is (...)
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    Philosophy of science: classic debates, standard problems, future prospects.Peter Machamer & Michael Silberstein - 2002 - In Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 18-36.
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    The meta‐language of psychiatry as cross‐disciplinary effort: In response to Zachar (2012).Drozdstoj Stoyanov, Peter K. Machamer, Kenneth F. Schaffner & Rayito Rivera-Hernández - 2012 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (3):710-720.
  41. Psa 1986 Proceedings of the 1986 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.Peter K. Fine & Peter Machamer - 1986
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    (1 other version)Athens-pittsburgh symposium in the history and philosophy of science and technology.Aristides Baltas & Peter Machamer - 2004 - Perspectives on Science 12 (3):243-243.
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    Letters to the Editor.Anne Davenport & Peter Machamer - 2008 - Isis 99 (3):585-585.
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    Personal decisions and universalizability.Ronald E. Laymon & Peter K. Machamer - 1970 - Mind 79 (315):425-426.
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    Art and morality.Peter K. Machamer & George W. Roberts - 1968 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 26 (4):515-519.
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    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.Peter Machamer - 2012 - In .
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    Daniela Bailer‐Jones, 1969–2006.Peter Machamer - 2007 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21 (2):211 – 212.
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    Ethics and News.Peter Machamer & Barbara Boylan - 1990 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 9 (1):53-64.
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    Explanations of Colors: A Comment to Hardin.Peter Machamer - 1997 - In Martin Carrier & Peter Machamer (eds.), Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 5--113.
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    Freedom, Information and Privacy.Peter Machamer & Barbara Boylan - 1993 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 12 (3):47-68.
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