Publications

1. Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. (2005). Explanation: A Mechanistic Alternative. Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences , 36, 421-441. [a preliminary paper articulating the need for study of diagrams in the context of explaining biological mechanisms]
2. Bechtel, W. (2013). Understanding biological mechanisms: Using illustrations from circadian rhythm research. In Kampourakis, K. (Ed.) Philosophical issues in biology education.
3. Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. (2012). Diagramming phenomena for mechanistic explanation. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
4. Sheredos, B. (2012). Reductio ad bacterium: The ubiquity of Bayesian 'brains' and the goals of cognitive science. Fronteirs in Psychology, 3, 498
5. Sheredos, B., Burston, D. C., Abrahamsen, A, and Bechtel, W. (forthcoming). Why do biologists use so many diagrams? Presented at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association and published in revised form in Philosophy of Science.
6. Sheredos, B. (2013). Scientific diagrams as traces of group-dependent cognition:
   A brief cognitive-historical analysis. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3396-2401.
7. Burnston, D. (2013). Mechanistic diagrams as search organizers. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1952-1957.
8. Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. (2013). Roles of diagrams in computational modeling of mechanisms. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1839-1844.
9. Bechtel, W., Sheredos, B., Burnston, D., and Abrahamsen, A. (2014). Representing time in scientific diagrams. In Paul Bello, Marcello Guarini, Marjorie McShane, & Brian Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 164-169.
10. Abrahamsen, A. and Bechtel, W. (in press). Diagrams as tools for scientific reasoning. Review of Psychology and Philosophy.
11. Burnston, D. C., Sheredos, B., Abrahamsen, A. and Bechtel, W. (in press). Scientists’ use of diagrams in developing mechanistic explanations: A case study from chronobiology. Pragmatics and Cognition.