Introduction Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Ylwa Sjölin Wirling, and Rami Koskinen
Part1: Possibility Concepts for Scientific Use
1. Through the Prism of Modal Epistemology: Perspectives on Modal Modeling Ylwa Sjölin Wirling and Till Grüne-Yanoff 2. Which Possibilities Contribute to Scientific Understanding? Collin Rice 3. Actual Possibility Paul Teller 4. The Possibilities in Propensities: Emergence and Modality Mauricio Suárez
Part2: Possibility Spaces
5. Invariance, Modality, and Modeling Andreas Hüttemann 6. Modeling the Biologically Possible: Evolvability as a Modal Concept Marcel Weber 7. The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers 8. Beyond Networks: Explaining the Dynamics in the Natural and Social Systems Johannes Jaeger, James DiFrisco, and Andrea Loettgers
Part3: Exploring How-Possibly in Practical Contexts
9. Three Strategies for Salvaging Explanatory Value in Deep Neural Network Modeling Philippe Verreault-Julien 10. Modeling Climate Possibilities Joe Roussos 11. Prospective Modeling Alfred Nordmann 12. Alternative Worlds: Reasonable Worlds? Plausible Worlds? Mary S. Morgan 13. Are Pandemics a Necessary Evil? The Role of Epidemiological and Immunological Models in Understanding and Preventing Diseases Gregor P. Greslehner. Index