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Susan Haack, Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books (2003), 411 pp., $28.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Keith M. Parsons
Keith M. Parsons*
Affiliation:
University of Houston, Clear Lake
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 390 - 395
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