Science, philosophy, and the mind

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 800-824

  Wood, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.035     Document Type: Chapter

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