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A Theory of Everything - Richard Dawid, String Theory and the Scientific Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2014), 212 pp., $29.99.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Samuel Schindler
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , July 2016 , pp. 453 - 458
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