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Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Bricks and Boxes; 1.1 The Wall; 1.2 A Theory of Everything?; 1.3 Pandora’s Gift to Science: The Black Box; 1.4 Structure and Synopsis; 1.5 Aim and Scope; Chapter 2: Between Scylla and Charybdis; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Rock Shoal and the Whirlpool; 2.3 The Rise and Fall of Classical Reductionism; 2.4 Antireductionism Strikes Back; 2.5 The Reductionists Return; 2.6 Scylla or Charybdis?; 2.7 Why Not Have the Cake and Eat It Too?; Chapter 3: Lessons from the History of Science; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Darwin’s Quest for Inheritance and Variation; 3.3 Mendel’s Missing Mechanisms: A Tale of Two Syntheses; 3.4 Absent Minded: Psychological Behaviors; 3.5 The Nature and Significance of Economics; 3.6 The Many Faces of Black Boxes; Chapter 4: Placeholders; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Two Theses About Fitness; 4.3 Are Dispositions Explanatory?; 4.4 Placeholders in Scientific Theory and Practice; 4.5 Two Types of Placeholders; Chapter 5: Black-Boxing 101; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Step One: The Framing Stage; 5.3 Step Two: The Difference-Making Stage; 5.4 Step Three: The Representation Stage; 5.5 What is a Black Box? A Three-Part Recipe; Chapter 6: History of Science ’Black-Boxing Style’; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Darwin’s Black Boxes; 6.3 Mendel’s Black Boxes; 6.4 Skinner’s Black Boxes; 6.5 Friedman’s Black Boxes; 6.6 Black Boxes in Science: Concluding Remarks; Chapter 7: Diet Mechanistic Philosophy; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The New Mechanistic Philosophy; 7.3 Three Steps: A Neo-Mechanistic Perspective; 7.4 Mechanisms, Models, and Metaphysics; 7.5 Mechanisms and Black Boxes; 7.6 What’s in a Mechanism?; 7.7 The Diet Recipe: Concluding Remarks; Chapter 8: Emergence Reframed; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Emergence: Metaphysical or Epistemic?; 8.3 Emergence in Action: Systems Neuroscience; 8.4 Emergents and Black Boxes; 8.5 Refinements and Implications; 8.6 Adequacy Conditions and Advantages; 8.7 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 9: The Fuel of Scientific Progress; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The Roots of Incommensurability; 9.3 Referential Models and Incommensurability; 9.4 Black Boxes and Reference Potential, Part I; 9.5 Black Boxes and Reference Potential, Part II; 9.6 Incommensurability, Progress, and Black Boxes: Concluding Remarks; Chapter 10: Sailing Through the Strait; 10.1 Back to Bricks and Boxes; 10.2 The Quagmire; 10.3 Rocking the Rock, Weathering the Whirlpool; 10.4 A History of Black Boxes; 10.5 The Devil in the Details?; References $ The innovative approach Nathan has adopted is to turn attention from preoccupation with what is known to describe the role of black boxes in science. Readers familiar with these debates should find that the motif of black boxes lends nuance to familiar arguments. |s D. Bantz, CHOICE |d Jun 2022 |a 06/06/2022 $ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780190095482 $ http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/images/en_US/covers/large/9780190095482_450.jpg $ $

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