Three problems for the mutual manipulability account of constitutive relevance in mechanisms

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 399-427

  Leuridan, Bert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 84863632301     PISSN: 00070882     EISSN: 14643537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axr036     Document Type: Article

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