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<p>I defend the concept of levels of mechanisms, and principled pluralism about levels more generally, against the criticisms of global eliminativists. I distinguish two ways of thinking about levels—one as waves of regularity and predictability, and the other as branches in a tree of composition—that often are conflated with one another. I show that the eliminativist’s criticisms apply only to the wave view and not to the tree view and argue that the resulting mechanistic analysis of levels is untouched by the eliminativists’ arguments.</p>

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Defending levels by trading waves for trees

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    2025年3月27日

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  • Carl F. Craver

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I defend the concept of levels of mechanisms, and principled pluralism about levels more generally, against the criticisms of global eliminativists. I distinguish two ways of thinking about levels—one as waves of regularity and predictability, and the other as branches in a tree of composition—that often are conflated with one another. I show that the eliminativist’s criticisms apply only to the wave view and not to the tree view and argue that the resulting mechanistic analysis of levels is untouched by the eliminativists’ arguments.