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Review of Angela Potochnik’s Idealization and the Aims of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Daniel C. Burnston
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 577 - 583
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Thanks to Alican Başdemir, Andrew Buskell, Angela Potochnik, Lachlan Walmsley, and the editors at Philosophy of Science for extremely helpful discussion and comments.

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