Symposium on explanations and social ontology 3: Can we dispense with structural explanations of social facts?

Economics and Philosophy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-275

  Weber, Erik ^a   Van Bouwel, Jeroen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 84973431234     PISSN: 02662671     EISSN: 14740028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266267102002043     Document Type: Article

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