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Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant

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Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant. / Stone, Alison.
The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. ed. / Lydia Moland; Alison Stone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. (Oxford Handbooks).

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Stone, A 2023, Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant. in L Moland & A Stone (eds), The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.47

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Stone, A. (2023). Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant. In L. Moland, & A. Stone (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.47

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Stone A. Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant. In Moland L, Stone A, editors, The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. (Oxford Handbooks). doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.47

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Stone, Alison. / Science, Religion, and Morality : Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant. The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. editor / Lydia Moland ; Alison Stone. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023. (Oxford Handbooks).

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