Mauricio Suárez (ed.): Fictions in Science. Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization: Routledge, 2009, 282 pp, 39.95 $, ISBN: 978-0-415-88792-2 [Book Review]

Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 43 (1):187-194 (2012)
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