Metaphysics and Scientific Practice

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Dupré, J. (2012). Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ereshefsky, M. (1998). Species Pluralism and Anti-Realism. Philosophy of Science, 65(1), 103–120. Link

Waters, C. K. (2016). No General Structure. In M. Slater & Z. Yudell (Eds.), Metaphysics in Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Link

Weber, M. (2008). Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation. Philosophy of Science, 75, 995–1007. Link

Wimsatt, W. C. (2007). Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press.

Wimsatt, W. C. (1972). Complexity and Organization. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1972, 67–86. Link