Contiene: I. The view from outside: 1. Methods and finance: a view from outside.- 2. Mathematical representation in economics and finance: philosophical preference, mathematical simplicity, and empirical relevance.- 3. Behind the price: on the role of agent's reflexivity in financial market microstructure.- 4. On the description of financial markets: a physicist's viewpoint.- 5. Reserarch habits in financial modelling: the case of normality of market returns in the 1970s and the 1980s.- 6. Super-exponential bubbles and expectations: theory, simulations and empirics.-- II. The view from inside: 7. Methods and finance. A view from inside.- 8. Contemporany finance as a critical cognitive niche: an epistemological outlook on the uncertain effects of contrasting uncertainty.- 9. The sciences of finance, their boundaries, their values.- 10. Quantification machines and artificial agents in global finance: historical - phenomenological perspectives from philosophy and sociology of technology and money.- 11. Dark Data. Some methodological issues in finance.