What's Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation?

In Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber (eds.), Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation. Springer. pp. 141--152 (2011)
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