Scientific Perspectivism and psychiatric diagnoses: respecting history and constraining relativism
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal for Philosophy of Science
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1879-4912,1879-4920
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-020-00320-x