There Are No Such Things as Theories, by Steven French [Book Review]

Mind 131 (524):1347-1357 (2021)
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Steven French’s new book is a bold and ambitious look at the question of what sorts of things scientific theories are—or rather, what they are not. For the purp.

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Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!).Steven French - 2024 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 55 (3):327-346.

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Models and fiction.Roman Frigg - 2007 - Synthese 172 (2):251-268.

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