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  1. Department of English, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Greg Murrie

  2. Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

    James Strick

  3. 351 Montague Street, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia

    Russell Blackford

  4. Department of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Tamas Pataki & Dennis Georgakis

  5. School of Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    John Forge, Adrienne Hallam & John Forge

  6. Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

    Andy Monk

  7. Department of Social Development Studies, Faculty of Human Ecology, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

    Richard McDonough

  8. Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    Greg Wilby

  9. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    R. W. Home & Roderick D. Buchanan

  10. Department of Humanities and Philosophy, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California, USA

    J. H. D. Amador

  11. Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Jean Lachapelle

  12. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Anthony Corones, David Oldroyd & Anthony Corones

  13. Department of History, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

    Emily Booth

  14. School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    James Franklin

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    William A. S. Sarjeant

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  18. Philosophy Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Andrew Oakley

  19. Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    David Branagan

  20. Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Tamara Kohn

  21. Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, Ft Collins, USA

    James Maffie

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Murrie, G., Strick, J., Blackford, R. et al. Reviews. Metascience 6, 71–171 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03022133

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