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