Regulating criticism: Some comments on an argumentative complex

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 79-88

  Potter, Jonathan ^a   Edwards, Derek ^b   Ashmore, Malcolm ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Critical realism; Interdisciplinary engagement; Psychology; Relativism; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040736202     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/09526959922120504     Document Type: Article

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