On Molecular Mechanisms and Contexts of Physical Explanation

Biological Theory 7 (3):256-265 (2013)
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In this article, two issues regarding mechanisms are discussed. The first concerns the relationships between “mechanism description” and “mechanism explanation.” It is proposed that it is rather plausible to think of them as two distinct epistemic acts. The second deals with the different molecular biology explanatory contexts, and it is shown that some of them require physics and its laws

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