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Why We Explain - Review of Anya Plutynski, 2018. Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder, Oxford University Press.
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Review of Anya Plutynski, 2018. Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder, Oxford University Press.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2023
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Since its initial publication in 2018, Professor Anya Plutynski’s Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder has garnered a great deal of accolades.1 In 2021, The London School of Economics and Political Science conferred Professor Plutynski the Lakatos Award, recognizing the book’s significant contribution to the philosophy of science. On the heels of its recent reissuing as a paperback, it is an ideal time to revisit this remarkable work.
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1. Plutynski, A. Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2018 Google Scholar.
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4. See note 1, Plutynski 2018, at 44.
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9. For an account of how our brain constructs emotions, see Barrett, LF. How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. New York, NY: Mariner Book; 2018 Google Scholar.