Structural realism
What is matter? The fundamental ontology of atomism and structural realism
... ontic structural real- ism as being opposed to an object-oriented metaphysics (see by contrast Ladyman and Ross (2007) and French (2014)): if there are relations, there are objects that stand in the ...ontic ...
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Spacetime, Ontology, and Structural Realism
... century, structural realism (SR) has only recently emerged as a serious contender in the debates on the status of scientific ...or structural content of a theory, rather than the existence of its ...
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Structural Realism and the Toolbox of Metaphysics
... of structural realism from objects possessing properties to relations and ...the structural realist to insist that maximal specificity corresponds to fundamentality because maximally specific ...
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Unitary Inequivalence as a Problem for Structural Realism
... characterised by the net of algebras) gives too thin an ontology, as it were, but redirects attention to the way that SSB allows us to preserve the ontological primacy of symmetry. However, it is not really a case of ...
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Structural realism: A critical appraisal
... However, although bringing up the substantivalist’s commitment to an innocuous form o f indeterminism with respect to a certain class o f theories seems to be something o f a red herring, the substantivalist’s ...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Structural Realism But Were Afraid to Ask
... full-fledged realism (‘realism’ henceforth), which does not deny that we have structural knowledge, but holds that we also have non-structural ...epistemic structural realism ...
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Spacetime and Structure: Structural Realism, Neo-Kantianism Idealism, or Relativized A Priorism?
... sophisticated structural realism, invoking a future-directed convergence of scientific structures falls clearly on the realist side of the realism/anti-realism debate, since “empirical ...
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The Ultimate Argument against Convergent Realism and Structural Realism: The Impasse Objection
... of realism are all kinds of structural realism that endorse the “structural continuity claim” (Votsis (in ...of structural realism over entity realism, namely, that ...
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Does Structural Realism Provide the Best Explanation of the Predictive Success of Science?
... kind realism” because it explains the strong success of theories, such as the phlogiston case, as a result of the fact that they posit some unobservable mechanism(s) which show that apparently different sorts of ...
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On the Ontology of Structural Realism
... the structural fact that states coexist under anarchy that constrains them to distrust each other and to accumulate power in order to protect themselves; similarly, it is the structural fact that states ...
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Spacetime, Structural Realism, and the Substantival/Relational Debate: An Ontological Investigation from the Perspective of Structural Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
... a structural realist construal, both Hoefer’s substantivalist and Einstein’s relationist versions of GTR would appear to constitute different ontological interpretations of the very same underlying physical ...
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Ontic Structural REalism and Economics
... about realism based on referential semantics are more ...of realism as applied to microphysics rests on the far-fetched suggestion that historical physicists both aimed at and succeeded in talking about ...
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The ‘Truth’ Between Realism and Anti-Realism
... ‘structural realism’ by John ...of realism and part of no-miracle argument, namely by claiming that there is continuity at mathematical ...level. Structural realism is one significant ...
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Replacing Recipe Realism
... (like structural realism) that ‘regard a particular type of theoretical element [such as ‘mathematical structure’] as having a special explanatory role’ for the ...
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Egypt and the failure of realism
... There is an obvious danger contained in the argument I have made thus far – it is all too easy to equate the political calculations of state representatives with a realist theory of International Relations. A committed ...
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The pretensions of moral realism
... define realism. What defines realism is the view that moral judgments have a characteristic linguistic function, express states of mind with a characteristic representational function and (therefore) that ...
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Physics and scientific realism
... my realism’ in the passage last quoted: it could mean either my conception of what realism entails' or the doctrine of realism to which I subscribe'; and (ii) we interpret the passage in the former ...
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Michael Smith on Realism
... moral realism Smith describing here endorses a conception of moral facts that is far away from the picture presented at the outset, moral facts as queer facts about the universe whose recognition necessarily ...
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Realism, understanding and truth
... I argue that theories of meaning based upon the notions of assertibility or deniability cannot explicate the meanings of the logical constants §4.4- to do this, the Anti-Realist must dev[r] ...
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Experiments and Functional Realism
... A functional ontology supplies a categorial framework that grounds and limits the language used in describing experiments and reporting results.. The scope and limitations of such a loca[r] ...
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