Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as

Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate

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Citation Shapin, Steven. 1992. Discipline and bounding: The history and
sociology of science as seen through the externalism-internalism
debate. History of Science 30: 333-369.
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