Reality’s next top model?: Uwe Meixner: Modelling metaphysics: The metaphysics of a model. Frankfurt, Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick: Ontos Verlag, 2010, 274pp, €79.00 HB

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Reality’s next top model? Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9475-3 Authors Jaakko Kuorikoski, Philosophy of Science Group/Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 24, 00014 Helsinki, Finland Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.

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