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Response to Belot's “Whose Devil? Which Details?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Robert W. Batterman
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Abstract

I respond to Belot's argument and defend the view that sometimes ‘fundamental theories’ are explanatorily inadequate and need to be supplemented with certain aspects of less fundamental ‘theories emeritus’.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 154 - 163
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Gordon Belot for writing his thought-provoking paper and for discussions about this reply. I would also like to thank Mark Wilson for helpful comments.

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