Introduction 1. Microphysicalism
1. The multi-layered conception of reality
2. Microphysicalism
3. The significance of microphysicalism
4. Analysis of the argument for microphysicalism 2. Laws of nature
1. Explanation, manifestation and instantiation
2. Laws and dispositions
3. Continuously manifestable dispositions
4. What is explained by the assumption of CMDs?
5. Conclusion 3. Micro-explanation
1. Distinctions
2. Micro-explanation (1) and the explanation of bridge-laws
3. Micro-explanation (3): C.D. Broad on the relation of parts and wholes
4. Micro-explanation (3) at work
5. Micro-explanation (2) and micro-explanation (4): explaining the states of compound systems
6. Micro-explanation and emergence
7. Failure of micro-explanation (1): emergence in the sense of Kim
8. Failure of micro-explanation (3): emergence in the sense of Broad
9. The case of quantum-entanglement
10. A diagnosis
11. Other modes of explanation
12. Concluding remarks 4. What is the Issue?
1. The issue
2. Non-issue 1: functionalism
3. Non-issue 2: the explanatory gap 5. Micro-determination
1. Explanation
2. Determination
3. A note on the pragmatics of explanation
4. Underdetermination
5. Hegemony
6. Micro-explanation and micro-determination
7. Objections and replies
8. Conclusion 6. Micro-government and the laws of the special sciences
1. Autonomy
2. Micro-government
3. On the instantiation of micro-laws
4. The failure of supervenience
5. The relativity of instantiation
6. The special laws of many particle physics
7. Conclusion Apendix 7. Micro-causation
1. Three models of micro-dependent causation
2. Causation
3. Micro-causation
4. Conclusion 8. Microphysicalism, physicalism and pluralism
1. Definitions of physicalism
2. Microphysicalism and identity-physicalism
3. Ontological unity and pragmatic pluralism Bibliography