Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective
Abstract
A task in the philosophy of discovery is to find reasoning strategies for discovery, which fall into three categories: strategies for generation, evaluation and revision. Because mechanisms are often what is discovered in biology, a newc haracterization of mechanism aids in their discovery. A computational system for discovering mechanisms is sketched, consisting of a simulator, a library of mechanism schemas and components, and a discoverer for generating, evaluating and revising proposed mechanism schemas. Revisions go through stages from how possibly to how plausibly to how actually .
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Darden. "Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective." International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, 2001. doi:10.1007/3-540-45583-3_5Markdown
[Darden. "Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective." International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/alt/2001/darden2001alt-discovering/) doi:10.1007/3-540-45583-3_5BibTeX
@inproceedings{darden2001alt-discovering,
title = {{Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective}},
author = {Darden, Lindley},
booktitle = {International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory},
year = {2001},
pages = {57-57},
doi = {10.1007/3-540-45583-3_5},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/alt/2001/darden2001alt-discovering/}
}