A ngela P otochnik, Idealization and the aims of science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 252 pp., $45.00, ISBN 9780226507057

Federico Boem

doi:10.1007/s40656-019-0283-9

A ngela P otochnik, Idealization and the aims of science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 252 pp., $45.00, ISBN 9780226507057 [Book Review]

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41 (4):44 (2019)

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