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| Preface | |
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| Degrees of Freedom | |
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| A Note to the Reader | |
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| A Note for the Scholars | |
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| This Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Division of Labor: The Factory | |
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| Nature as a Factory | |
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| Handles and Stories. What Everyday Walls Must Do | |
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| Walls for a Factory | |
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| Walls as Providential. Particles Objects, and Workers | |
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| What Particles Must Be Like | |
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| Intuitions of Walls and Particles. What Fields Must Be Like. | |
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| Taking Apart and Putting Together: The Clockworks, the Calculus, and the Computer | |
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| The Right Degrees of Freedom | |
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| The Clockworks and The Calculus. Parts Are Strategies | |
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| Independence and Randomness | |
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| Dependence, Spreadsheets, and Differential Equations | |
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| Additivity and The Calculus | |
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| Disjoint Functionality and Interpretability: Bureaucracy, Flow Processing Plants, and Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Sequence and Procedure. Parts Are Commitments. | |
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| Freedom and Necessity: Family and Kinship | |
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| Recapitulation and Prospect | |
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| Kinship, Exchange, and Plenitude | |
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| Systematics in the Field | |
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| The Problem of "Quite Rarely" | |
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| Markets and Fetishes | |
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| Taking the Rules Seriously | |
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| Structure and System. | |
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| The Vacuum and the Creation: Setting a Stage | |
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| So Far, an Epitome | |
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| Sweeping Up the Vacuum | |
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| Symmetry and Order. The Empty Stage | |
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| Of Nothing, Something, and the Vacuum. Setting Up the Stage | |
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| Ideologies for a Vacuum | |
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| The Dialectic of Finding a Good Vacuum | |
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| The Analogy of Substance, Once More. Fluctuations in a Vacuum. Annealing the World. | |
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| Handles, Probes, and Tools: A Rhetoric of Nature | |
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| A Craft of Science | |
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| Some Handles onto the World (Particles, Crystals, Gasses | |
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| Analogy | |
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| Phase Transitions | |
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| Knowledge Is Handling). Probes | |
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| Objectivity and Inelasticity | |
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| Probes and Handles. Tools and Toolkits | |
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| A Physicist's Toolkit | |
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| So Far. | |
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| Production Machinery: Mathematics for Analysis and Description | |
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| Philosophical Analysis and Phenomenological Description | |
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| Machinery and Production Processes | |
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| Naming and Modeling the World | |
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| Demonstrations and Proofs as Strategies of Explanation | |
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| Understanding "The Physics" | |
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| Analogy and Syzygy | |
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| The Mathematics and The Physics | |
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| An Epitome | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |