Review of Toby Handfield, A Philosophical Guide to Chance [Book Review]

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2013 (2013)
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This is a review of Toby Handfield's book, "A Philosophical Guide to Chance", that discusses Handfield's Debunking Argument against realist accounts of chance.

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