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Philosophy among the fossils

Derek Turner: Paleontology: A philosophical introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 208pp, $28.99, £17.99 PB

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  • Beatty, John. 1995. The evolutionary contingency thesis. In Concepts, theories, and rationality in the biological sciences, eds. G. Wolters, and J.G. Lennox, 45–81. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

  • Turner, Derek. 2007. Making prehistory: Historical science and the scientific realism debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Sepkoski, D. Philosophy among the fossils. Metascience 21, 363–366 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9616-3

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