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Back into the great outdoors: speculative realism as philosophy of science

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Back into the great outdoors: speculative realism as philosophy of science. / Saldanha, Arun.
In: Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2009, p. 304-321.

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Harvard

Saldanha, A 2009, 'Back into the great outdoors: speculative realism as philosophy of science', Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 304-321. <http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/118>

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Saldanha, A. (2009). Back into the great outdoors: speculative realism as philosophy of science. Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 5(2), 304-321. http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/118

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Saldanha A. Back into the great outdoors: speculative realism as philosophy of science. Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. 2009;5(2):304-321.

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Saldanha, Arun. / Back into the great outdoors : speculative realism as philosophy of science. In: Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. 2009 ; Vol. 5, No. 2. pp. 304-321.

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