Nonreductive individualism Part I - Supervenience and wild disjunction

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 537-559

  Sawyer, R Keith ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/004839302237836     Document Type: Article

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