REVIEW: Daniel Rothbart, Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work [Book Review]

Spontaneous Generations 3 (1):233-235 (2009)
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This slim volume contains much that is suggestive, but little that is substantive. This is unfortunate, as there is need of a sustained analysis of the epistemology of instruments.

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