Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
Contents
Natural kinds and essentialism -- Natural kinds -- Species -- Essences -- Reductionaism -- Reductionism and materialism -- Reductionism in biology I: ecology -- Reductionism in biology 2: genetics -- Reductionism and the mental -- The limits of causality -- Determinism -- Probabilistic causality -- Some consequences of disorder -- The disunity of science -- Science and values.
