Aspects of reductive explanation in biological science: Intrinsicality, fundamentality, and temporality

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 519-549

  Hüttemann, Andreas ^a   Love, Alan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 80051706701     PISSN: 00070882     EISSN: 14643537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axr006     Document Type: Article

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