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Cautious realism and middle range ontology

Anjan Chakravartty: Scientific ontology: integrating naturalized metaphysics and voluntarist epistemology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 296pp, US$74.00 HB

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Thanks to Gunnar Babcock for comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Magnus, P.D. Cautious realism and middle range ontology. Metascience 27, 365–370 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0342-y

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