Chapter 1 Metaphysics and the Unity of Science: Two Hundred Years of Controversy

Chapter 2 Saving Models from Phenomena: A Cautionary Tale from Membrane and Cell Biology

Chapter 3 My Touchstone Puzzles. W.D. Hamilton’s Work on Social Wasps in the 1960s

Chapter 4 The First Century of Cell Theory: From Structural Units to Complex Living Systems

Chapter 5 Theorizing the Distinction Between Solids, Liquids and Air: Pressure from Stevin to Pascal

Chapter 6 “Beyond the Conventional Boundaries of Physics”: On Relating Ernst Mach’s Philosophy to His Teaching and Research in the 1870s and 1880s

Chapter 7 Scientific Inference and the Earth’s Interior: Dorothy Wrinch and Harold Jeffreys at Cambridge

Chapter 8 Values, Facts and Methodologies. A Case Study in Philosophy of Economics

Chapter 9 Extended Evolution and the History of Knowledge