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Cleland - Hist y Exp
Author(s): CarolE.Cleland
Source: Philosophy of Science, Vol. 69, No. 3 (September 2002), pp. 447-451
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association
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*Received September 2001; revised March 2002.
Send requests for reprints to the author, Philosophy Department and Center for As-
trobiology, 169 Hellems, Campus Box 232, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO80309;
e-mail: cleland@spot.colorado.edu.
I am indebted to Alan Franklin, Marc Lang, and Stephen Leeds for comments and
helpful suggestions on an earlier draft of this paper. This research was supported in
part by a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the Uni-
versity of Colorados Astrobiology Institute.
Philosophy of Science, 69 (September 2002) pp. 474496. 0031-8248/2002/6903-0000$10.00
Copyright 2002 by the Philosophy of Science Association. All rights reserved.
Methodological and Epistemic
Differences between Historical Science
and Experimental Science
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Carol E. Cleland