Novel approaches to models: Mauricio Suárez : Fictions in science: philosophical essays on modeling and idealization, Routledge, New York, 2009, vii + 282 pp, US$118 HB [Book Review]

Metascience 19 (2):285-288 (2010)
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This paper is a review of Suarez, M. (ed.) Fictions in Science (Routledge).

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