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What Scientific Progress Is Not: Against Bird’s Epistemic View

Darrell P. RowbottomCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 241-255 | Published online: 06 Jan 2011

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Luca Tambolo. 2015. Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki. Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki 17 25 .
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