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We thank our department head, colleagues, and families for their encouragement and support in the writing of this book. We especially want to thank the students in FPG’s philosophy of science courses at the University of Wyoming, who provided valuable feedback on earlier versions of the manuscript that eventually morphed into this book. Marissa Koors from Wiley suggested the inclusion of our manuscript in their series This is Philosophy, and the series editor, Steven Hales, got the project going. Our thanks to both of them, as well as to Charlie Hamlyn, who saw the book through to completion. Five anonymous reviewers helped us improve the manuscript by alerting us to several errors and by suggesting discussions of additional topics to enlarge the scope of the text, for which we are grateful. A number of former students and colleagues contributed directly to the content, either by critically evaluating some parts of the manuscript, or by helping us see some of the issues in a different light during fruitful discussions. In particular, our thanks go to Elizabeth Cantalamessa, Conor O’Malley, Bradley Rettler, and Lindsay Rettler. Thanks also to Elizabeth Bell, whose delightful illustrations will help the reader get a better grasp of some of the more abstract topics, and to John Poland for compiling the index.