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