Social objects, causality and contingent realism

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Williams, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Necessity; Probability; Realism; Social objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849087347     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00396.x     Document Type: Article

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