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James Robert Brown. The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences. New York: Routledge (1991), xi + 175 pp., $49.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Gerald J. Massey
Gerald J. Massey*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 341 - 343
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1995

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References

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