Publications on Diagrams

Abrahamsen, A. Sheredos, B, and Bechtel, W. (2018). Explaining visually using mechanism diagrams. In Glennan, S. and Illari, P. The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy (pp. 238-254). London: Routledge.

Bechtel, W., Abrahamsen, A. and Sheredos, B. (2018). Using diagrams to reason about biological mechanisms. P. Chapman, G. Stapleton, A. Moktefi, S. Perez-Kriz, and F. Bellucci (Eds.). Diagrammatic representation and inference (pp. 264-279). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Burnston, D. C., Sheredos, B., Abrahamsen, A., & Bechtel, W. (2014). Scientists' use of diagrams in developing mechanistic explanations: A case study from chronobiology. Pragmatics and Cognition, 22(2), 224-243.

Abrahamsen, A. and Bechtel, W. (2015). Diagrams as tools for scientific reasoning. Reviews of Philosophy and Psychology, 6, 117-131.

Bechtel, W., Sheredos, B., Burnston, D., and Abrahamsen, A. (2014). Representing time in scientific diagrams. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Sheredos, B., Burston, D. C., Abrahamsen, A, and Bechtel, W. (2013). Why do biologists use so many diagrams? Philosophy of Science, 80, 931-944.

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.

Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. (2013). Thinking dynamically about biological mechanisms: Networks of coupled oscillators. Foundations of Science, 18, 707-723.

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.