Firing squads and fine-tuning: Sober on the design argument

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 809-821

  Weisberg, Jonathan ^a  

^a Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University   (United States)

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EID: 29144508488     PISSN: 00070882     EISSN: 14643537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axi139     Document Type: Review

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