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Review of Biological Autonomy - Alvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio, Biological Autonomy. Dordrecht: Springer (2015), 221 pp., $129.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Jason Winning  and
William Bechtel
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , July 2016 , pp. 446 - 452
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