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Old problems for a new theory: Mayo on Giere's theory of causation

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53705, Madison, WI, USA

    Ellery Eells & Elliott Sober

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The first named author thanks the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Science Foundation (grant no. SES-8605440) for financial support during the time this paper was written.

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Eells, E., Sober, E. Old problems for a new theory: Mayo on Giere's theory of causation. Philosophical Studies 52, 291–307 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00354050

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