Critical realism and causality: Tracing the aristotelian legacy

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-218

  Pratten, Stephen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aristotle; Causality; Critical realism; Final causes; Harr ; Peirce; Powerful particulars; Rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 66749133517     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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