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Précis of Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Michael Hymers
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University

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Notes

2 Hymers, Michael, Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000).Google Scholar

3 Putnam, Hilary, Reason, Truth and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), chap. 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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12 Rorty, Richard, Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 138.Google Scholar

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