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Baconian Experimentalism: Comments on McMullin's History of the Philosophy of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Rose-Mary Sargent
Rose-Mary Sargent*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Merrimack College
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†Department of Philosophy, S7, Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA 01845; email: rsargent@merrimack.edu.
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 311 - 318
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 2001

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Footnotes

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These comments were completed while I was Visiting Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I thank the Philosophy Department, especially Roger Ariew, Richard Burian, Deborah Mayo, and Joe Pitt, for their support.

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