What does the conservation of energy have to do with physicalism?

Dialectica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 383-396

  Montero, Barbara ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 61449428150     PISSN: 00122017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2006.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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