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Relativism for philosophers and sociologists

Richard Schantz and Markus Seidel (eds): The problem of relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011, 235pp, €89.00 HB

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Demeter, T. Relativism for philosophers and sociologists. Metascience 22, 475–479 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9743-5

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