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Theory and reality : an introduction to the philosophy of science /

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate ab...

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Main Author:	Godfrey-Smith, Peter (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Science > Philosophy.

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