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How should philosophy of social science proceed?

Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (ed.): Philosophy of the social sciences: Philosophical theory and scientific practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 344pp, £18.99 PB

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Kincaid, H. How should philosophy of social science proceed?. Metascience 21, 391–394 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9592-7

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