Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. The Web of Knowledge 1
5. 2. Nature, Gods, and Governance 21
6. 3. Law in Nature, Nature in Law 47
7. 4. Epistemology and Judicial Rhetoric 77
8. 5. The Embeddedness of Seeing 106
9. 6. The Trouble with Taxa 133
10. 7. The Long Reach of Ontology 155
11. 8. Dreams of a Final Theory 176
12. 9. Of Miracles and Mistaken Theories 200
13. 10. Worlds Given, Worlds Made 224
14. 11. Conclusion 243
15. Appendix: Lemma to the Mirror Problem 247
16. Reference List 251
17. Index 269