Models, Mathematics, and Measurement: A Review of Reconstructing Reality by Margaret Morrison - Margaret Morrison, Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), viii+334 pp., $65.00 (cloth) [Book Review]

Philosophy of Science 83 (4):627-633 (2016)
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