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Review of In Search of Mechanisms - Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden, In Search of Mechanisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2013), 256 pp., $75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Arnon Levy
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 321 - 325
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