Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics.- Correspondence and Reduction in Chemistry.- Taking Antecedent Conditions Seriously: A Lesson in Heuristics From Biology.- The Rise of the ‘Fifth Force’.- Michael Faraday’s Thought: Discovery or Revelation?.- Ideology, Heuristics and Rationality in the Context of Discovery.- Towards an Acceptable Theory of Acceptance: Partial Structures, Inconsistency and Correspondence.- Tales from the Classroom: The See-Saw.- The Unnatural Nature of the Laws of Nature: Symmetry and Asymmetry.- Galilean Relativity and Galileo’s Relativity.- Pragmatic Circles in Relativistic Time Keeping.- Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics in the Emergency of Special Relativity.- Underdetermination, Conventionalism and Realism: The Copenhagen vs. The Bohm Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- Measurement and Quantum Silence.- To What Physics Corresponds.- Is the End of Physics in Sight?.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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