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William Bechtel

WB

74

Publications

6.3K

Citations

39

H-Index

1982

Active since

Affiliations

University of California San Diego(Current)

Georgia State University

University of California System

Washington University in St. Louis

University of the Basque Country

William Bechtel is an author at University of California San Diego specializing in social sciences, cognitive science, and cognition.

Top concepts

Social SciencesCognitive ScienceCognitionPsychologyCognitive NeurosciencePhilosophy Of MindExperimental PsychologyNeuroscienceMedicineEngineering

Publications per year

1982–2022

74

Publications

74

Explanation: a mechanist alternative

William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences · 2005 · 1.1K citations

Automated Reasoning, Mechanist Alternative, Philosophy Of Computer Science +1

Top-down Causation Without Top-down Causes

Carl F. Craver, William Bechtel · Biology & Philosophy · 2006 · 464 citations

Cognitive Science, Bias, Top-down Causation +6

Multiple Realizability Revisited: Linking Cognitive and Neural States

William Bechtel, Jennifer Mundale · Philosophy of Science · 1999 · 463 citations

Neuropsychology, Neurolinguistics, Cognition +21

Dynamic mechanistic explanation: computational modeling of circadian rhythms as an exemplar for cognitive science

William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A · 2010 · 253 citations

Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation, Cognitive Science, Alertness +15

Abstraction and the Organization of Mechanisms

Arnon Levy, William Bechtel · Philosophy of Science · 2013 · 248 citations

Network Theory (Electrical Engineering), Interaction Network, Network Analysis +19

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