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Get real! A new pragmatist vision for the philosophy of science

Hasok Chang: Realism for realistic people: a new pragmatist philosophy of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, xii + 282 pp, $99 HB

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Stump, D.J. Get real! A new pragmatist vision for the philosophy of science. Metascience 32, 155–159 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00855-8

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