Book Review: The Explanation of Social Action by John Levi MartinMartinJohn LeviThe Explanation of Social Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 416 pp [Book Review]

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (3):394-399 (2015)
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