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Paul Sheldon Davies, Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2001), xiv + 234 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Arno Wouters
Arno Wouters*
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Leiden University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 220 - 222
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