Is science neurotic?

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 259-299

  Maxwell, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aims of inquiry; Metaphysics; Natural science; Neurosis; Philosophy of science; Physics; Psychoanalysis; Rationality; Scientific method; Social science; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444221875     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9973.00228     Document Type: Article

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