From biological practice to scientific metaphysics

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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2023)
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Exploring what a scientific metaphysics grounded in biological practices could look like and how it might impact the way we investigate the world around us, the contributors to From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics review and discuss long-held objections to metaphysics by natural scientists. They illuminate how, in order to learn about the world as it truly is, we must look not only at what scientists say but also what they do.

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Evolution and the metabolism of error : biological practice as foundation for a scientific metaphysics.William C. Wimsatt
Explanation in contexts of causal complexity : lessons from psychiatric genetics.Lauren N. Ross
How to infer metaphysics from scientific practice as a biologist might.William C. Bausman
Ideal observations : information and causation in biological practice.Oliver M. Lean
Individual-level mechanisms in ecology and evolution.Marie I. Kaiser & Rose Trappes
Introduction : toward a scientific metaphysics based on biological practice.C. Bausman William, K. Baxter Janella & M. Lean Oliver
Just how messy is the world?Janella K. Baxter
The grounded functionality account of natural kinds.Marc Ereshefsky & Thomas A. C. Reydon
The reduction of classical experimental embryology to molecular developmental biology : a tale of three sciences.Marcel Weber
What was Carnap rejecting when he rejected metaphysics?Richard Creath

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Oliver Lean
University of Bristol
Janella Baxter
Sam Houston State University
William C. Bausman
University of Zürich

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