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The concluding chapter 7 summarizes the take-home messages of this book and sketches some prospects for future philosophical work on the topic of epistemic reduction in the biological sciences.
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Kaiser, M.I. (2015). Conclusion. In: Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25310-7_7
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