Chapter 1 Are There Good Arguments Against Scientific Realism?

Chapter 2 Quantum Gravity: A Dogma of Unification?

Chapter 3 On Predictions and Explanations in Multiverse Scenarios

Chapter 4 The Clock Paradox: Luise Lange’s Discussion

Chapter 5 Bio-Agency and the Possibility of Artificial Agents

Chapter 6 When Mechanisms Are Not Enough: The Origin of Eukaryotes and Scientific Explanation

Chapter 7 Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation

Chapter 8 Disease Entities, Negative Causes, Multifactoriality, and the Naturalness of Disease Classifications. Remarks on Some Philosophical Misperceptions of Medical Pathology

Chapter 9 Identifying Agnotological Ploys: How to Stay Clear of Unjustified Dissent

Chapter 11 From Stability to Validity: How Standards Serve Epistemic Ends

Chapter 12 Constitutive Inference and the Problem of a Complete Variation of Factors

Chapter 13 A Partial Calculus for Dag Prawitz’s Theory of Grounds and a Decidability Issue

Chapter 14 Models in Search of Targets: Exploratory Modelling and the Case of Turing Patterns