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Review of Adrian Currie’s Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences - Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2018), 372 pp., $35.00 (hardcover).

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Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2018), 372 pp., $35.00 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2022

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 89 , Issue 4 , October 2022 , pp. 868 - 871
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association

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