Group Minds and Natural Kinds
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2082-6710
DOI: 10.26913/avant.2019.03.08