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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Title Page
  4. Title Page
  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

Contents

  1. Introduction: Toward a Scientific Metaphysics Based on Biological Practice

    William C. Bausman, Janella K. Baxter, and Oliver M. Lean

  2. 1. Evolution and the Metabolism of Error: Biological Practice as Foundation for a Scientific Metaphysics

    William C. Wimsatt

  3. 2. How to Infer Metaphysics from Scientific Practice as a Biologist Might

    William C. Bausman

  4. 3. What Was Carnap Rejecting When He Rejected Metaphysics?

    Richard Creath

  5. 4. Ideal Observations: Information and Causation in Biological Practice

    Oliver M. Lean

  6. 5. Individual-Level Mechanisms in Ecology and Evolution

    Marie I. Kaiser and Rose Trappes

  7. 6. Just How Messy Is the World?

    Janella K. Baxter

  8. 7. The Reduction of Classical Experimental Embryology to Molecular Developmental Biology: A Tale of Three Sciences

    Marcel Weber

  9. 8. Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from Psychiatric Genetics

    Lauren N. Ross

  10. 9. The Grounded Functionality Account of Natural Kinds

    Marc Ereshefsky and Thomas A. C. Reydon

  11. Contributors

  12. Index

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