Universality is not universal: how much can we explain with falsehoods?: Collin Rice: Leveraging distortions: explanation, idealization, and universality in science. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2021, 353 pp, $65.00 PB [Book Review]

Metascience 31 (2):183-186 (2022)
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Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation.Michael Strevens - 2008 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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