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Causality: an empirically informed plea for pluralism

Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo: Causality: Philosophical theory meets scientific practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 310pp, £29.99 HB

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Austin, C.J. Causality: an empirically informed plea for pluralism. Metascience 25, 293–296 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0062-0

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