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.