Third time's a charm: Causation, science and Wittgensteinian pluralism

Causality in the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Reiss, Julian ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causation; Conceptual analysis; Pluralism; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862855348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0042     Document Type: Chapter

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