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Dualisms of body and soul: historiographical challenges to a stereotype

Danijela Kambaskovic (ed.): Conjunctions of mind, soul and body from Plato to the enlightenment. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014; Studies in the history of philosophy of mind, vol. 15, xviii+421pp, $179 HB

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Vidal, F. Dualisms of body and soul: historiographical challenges to a stereotype. Metascience 25, 111–114 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-0050-9

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