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Virtual Realism: Really Realism or only Virtually so? A Comment on D. J. Chalmers’s Petrus Hispanus Lectures Cover

Virtual Realism: Really Realism or only Virtually so? A Comment on D. J. Chalmers’s Petrus Hispanus Lectures

Disputatio
Volume 11 (2019): Issue 55 (December 2019)
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|Jun 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2182-2875 | Journal ISSN: 0873-626X
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Language: English, Portuguese
Page range: 297 - 331
Published on: Jun 8, 2020
Published by: University of Lisbon
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year
Keywords:
Computer simulation,
model,
fictional model,
ontology,
fictionalism
Related subjects:
Philosophy,
Selected philosophical movements,
Analytical philosophy

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