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Resisting Scientific Realism with or Without van Fraassen’s Darwinian Explanation

K. Brad Wray: Resisting Scientific Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 224pp, $105 HB

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Stanford, P.K. Resisting Scientific Realism with or Without van Fraassen’s Darwinian Explanation. Metascience 29, 25–31 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00489-0

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