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Paul Humphreys. The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1989), x + 170 pp., $29.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Jim Woodward
Jim Woodward*
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California Institute of Technology
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 671 - 673
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1993

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