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a book entitled Schroedinger's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Kluwer, 1996). He also published two books in French on quantum mechanics and on realism in science, in 1996 and 1998. More recently, he has focused on the relations between the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the philosophy of mind, working in close collaboration with F. Varela. He pub

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