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Very stimulating. . . . [ Unsimple Truths ] is clean and spare and fun to read. And to argue with. What more could one ask of a philosophical treatise? --Michael Ruse Quarterly Review of Biology Drawing on nicely handled examples from psychiatry (e.g., major depressive disorder), biology (e.g., recent genetics and genomics, drug discovery, the study of insect societies), and the policy world (e.g., climate change and economic problems), Mitchell develops and illustrates a philosophy of science suited to the complexities scientists face. The result is a compact and elegant presentation of a philosophy of science she calls integrative pluralism, challenging many orthodox positions in the philosophy of science. --Richard M. Burian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University BioScience Drawing on nicely handled examples from psychiatry (e.g., major depressive disorder), biology (e.g., recent genetics and genomics, drug discovery, the study of insect societies), and the policy world (e.g., climate change and economic problems), Mitchell develops and illustrates a philosophy of science suited to the complexities scientists face. The result is a compact and elegant presentation of a philosophy of science she calls integrative pluralism, challenging many orthodox positions in the philosophy of science. --Richard M. Burian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University BioScience Very stimulating. . . . [Unsimple Truths] is clean and spare and fun to read. And to argue with. What more could one ask of a philosophical treatise? --Michael Ruse Quarterly Review of Biology Very stimulating. . . . [ Unsimple Truths ] is clean and spare and fun to read. And to argue with. What more could one ask of a philosophical treatise? --Michael Ruse Quarterly Review of Biology

Drawing on nicely handled examples from psychiatry (e.g., major depressive disorder), biology (e.g., recent genetics and genomics, drug discovery, the study of insect societies), and the policy world (e.g., climate change and economic problems), Mitchell develops and illustrates a philosophy of science suited to the complexities scientists face. The result is a compact and elegant presentation of a philosophy of science she calls integrative pluralism, challenging many orthodox positions in the philosophy of science. --Richard M. Burian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University BioScience

Very stimulating. . . . [ Unsimple Truths ] is clean and spare and fun to read. And to argue with. What more could one ask of a philosophical treatise? -- Quarterly Review of Biology <br>--Michael Ruse Quarterly Review of Biology

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Sandra D. Mitchell is professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism.

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