Chapter 1 Introduction: Points of Contact Between Biology and History

Chapter 2 The Ontic Account of Scientific Explanation

Chapter 3 Causal Graphs and Biological Mechanisms

Chapter 4 Semiotic Explanation in the Biological Sciences

Chapter 5 Mechanisms, Patho-Mechanisms, and the Explanation of Disease in Scientifically Based Clinical Medicine

Chapter 6 The Generalizations of Biology: Historical and Contingent?

Chapter 7 Evolutionary Explanations and the Role of Mechanisms

Chapter 9 Causal Explanation and Historical Meaning: How to Solve the Problem of the Specific Historical Relation Between Events

Chapter 10 Do Historians Study the Mechanisms of History? A Sketch

Chapter 11 Philosophy of History: Metaphysics and Epistemology

Chapter 12 Causal Explanations of Historical Trends

Chapter 13 Aspects of Human Historiographic Explanation: A View from the Philosophy of Science

Chapter 14 History and the Sciences

Chapter 15 Explanation and Intervention in Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Chapter 16 Biology and Natural History: What Makes the Difference?