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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

Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science

  1. Alan C. Love, General Editor
  2. Herbert Feigl, Founding Editor

EDITORIAL BOARD

  1. Roy T. Cook

    Philosophy, University of Minnesota

  2. Helen E. Longino

    Philosophy, Stanford University

  3. Ruth G. Shaw

    Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota

  4. Jos Uffink

    Philosophy, University of Minnesota

  5. C. Kenneth Waters

    Philosophy, University of Calgary

ALSO IN THIS SERIES

  1. Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

    Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors

    Volume 22

  2. The Experimental Side of Modeling

    Isabelle F. Peschard and Bas C. van Fraassen, Editors

    Volume 21

  3. The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

    Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik, and C. Kenneth Waters, Editors

    Volume 20

  4. Scientific Pluralism

    Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters, Editors

    Volume 19

  5. Logical Empiricism in North America

    Gary L. Hardcastle and Alan W. Richardson, Editors

    Volume 18

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