Wesley Salmon's complementarity thesis: Causalism and unificationism reconciled?

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-147

  De Regt, Henk W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34347288254     PISSN: 02698595     EISSN: 14699281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02698590600814308     Document Type: Article

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