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The far-reaching impact of dispositionalism?

Travis Dumsday: Dispositionalism and the metaphysics of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 232pp, £22.99 PB

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Livanios, V. The far-reaching impact of dispositionalism?. Metascience 30, 361–364 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00674-9

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