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Maternal Effects: On Dennett and Darwins Dangerous Idea - Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Simon and Schuster (1995), 586 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 65 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 709 - 720
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1998

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Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford CA, 94305–2155.

‡

I am grateful to Daniel Dennett, Stephen Downes, Lori Gruen, David Hull, Philip Kitcher, and Kim Sterelny for helpful comments on earlier drafts.

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