Environment-dependent content and the virtues of causal explanation

Synthese

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 551-575

  Noordhof, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646517482     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-005-0579-z     Document Type: Review

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