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Perspectives on causes and dispositions

Toby Handfield (ed): Dispositions and causes, Oxford University Press, 2009, 343 pp, £45.00, HB

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  2. Institut Jean Nicod, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005, Paris, France

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Kistler, M. Perspectives on causes and dispositions. Metascience 19, 403–407 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9392-5

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