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  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Toward a Scientific Metaphysics Based on Biological Practice
  8. 1. Evolution and the Metabolism of Error: Biological Practice as Foundation for a Scientific Metaphysics
  9. 2. How to Infer Metaphysics from Scientific Practice as a Biologist Might
  10. 3. What Was Carnap Rejecting When He Rejected Metaphysics?
  11. 4. Ideal Observations: Information and Causation in Biological Practice
  12. 5. Individual-Level Mechanisms in Ecology and Evolution
  13. 6. Just How Messy Is the World?
  14. 7. The Reduction of Classical Experimental Embryology to Molecular Developmental Biology: A Tale of Three Sciences
  15. 8. Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from Psychiatric Genetics
  16. 9. The Grounded Functionality Account of Natural Kinds
  17. Contributors
  18. Index

Contributors

William C. Bausman is postdoctoral fellow as part of the interdisciplinary “Evolving Language” project by the Swiss National Science Foundation National Centres of Competence in Research. He is based in the department of philosophy at the University of Zurich.

Janella K. Baxter is assistant professor in the psychology and philosophy department at Sam Houston State University.

Richard Creath is President’s Professor of Life Sciences and Philosophy and director of the program in history and philosophy of science at Arizona State University. He is the general editor of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap.

Marc Ereshefsky is professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary.

Marie I. Kaiser is professor for philosophy of science at the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SoS) at Bielefeld University.

Oliver M. Lean earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bristol in 2016 and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Calgary in Canada and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He currently works in industry as a machine learning developer.

Thomas A. C. Reydon is professor of philosophy of science and technology in the Institute of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) at Leibniz Universität Hannover, as well as associated faculty in the Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science Group (SEPOS) at Michigan State University. He is coeditor in chief of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

Lauren N. Ross is associate professor in the logic and philosophy of science department at the University of California, Irvine.

Rose Trappes is a postdoctoral research fellow at Egenis, the Centre for Study of the Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter, UK.

Marcel Weber is professor of philosophy of science in the department of philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His publications include Philosophy of Experimental Biology (2005) and Philosophy of Developmental Biology (2022).

William C. Wimsatt was Winton Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, now emeritus. He is author of Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality (Harvard 2007) and coeditor of Characterizing the Robustness of Science: After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science (2012) and Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition (2013).

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