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Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
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Dov M. Gabbay
Paul Thagard
John Woods
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Philosophy of Biology
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Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
General Editors
Dov M. Gabbay
Paul Thagard
John Woods
Cover figure taken from: Darwin’s Origin of Species, 1859
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Philosophy of Biology
Edited by
Mohan Matthen
University of Toronto, Canada
and
Christopher Stephens
University of British Columbia, Canada
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