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Explanation and reality: comment on Chakravartty

Anjan Chakravartty: Scientific ontology: integrating naturalized metaphysics and voluntarist epistemology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 296pp, US$74.00 HB

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Strevens, M. Explanation and reality: comment on Chakravartty. Metascience 27, 371–378 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0343-x

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