How to be a realist about sui generis teleology yet feel at home in the 21st century

Monist

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-95

  Cameron, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

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