Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material / Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwright -- PREFACE / Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwright -- ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS / Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwright -- QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF IDEALIZED MODELS IN THE NEW CLASSICAL MACROECONOMICS / Kevin D. Hoover -- WHY IDEALIZED MODELS IN ECONOMICS HAVE LIMITED USE / John Pemberton -- THE REVIVAL OF ARISTOTLE’S NATURE / Amos Funkenstein -- THE INFORMATIONAL GENE AND THE SUBSTANTIAL BODY: ON THE GENERALIZATION OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY BY ABSTRACTION / James R. Griesemer -- ABSTRACTION VIA GENERIC MODELING IN CONCEPT FORMATION IN SCIENCE / Nancy J. Nersessian -- APPROXIMATING THE REAL: THE ROLE OF IDEALIZATIONS IN PHYSICAL THEORY / Margaret Morrison -- IDEALIZATION AND ABSTRACTION: A FRAMEWORK / Martin R. Jones -- STANDARD TIME / David S. Nivison -- EVADING THE IRS / James Bogen and James Woodward -- REALISM IS DEAD / M. Norton Wise -- IS REALISM DEAD? / Ronald N. Giere -- POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES / Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwright.

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