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Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social ResearchHarold Kincaid Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvi + 283 pp., £12.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Aviezer Tucker
Affiliation:
Columbia University

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1999

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