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Scientific Structuralism

Part of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Book Series (volume 281)

Editors: Bokulich, Alisa; Bokulich, Peter

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9597-8

ISBN: 978-90-481-9596-1

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Sep 23, 2010

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Structural Realism: A Neo-Kantian Perspective

Massimi, Michela

Pages: 1 –23

[Structural realism was born in the attempt to reach a compromise between a realist argument and an antirealist one, namely the ‘no miracle’ argument and the ‘pessimistic meta-induction’, respectively. According to the ‘no miracle’ argument, scientific realism is the only philosophy that does...
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Chapter 2In Defence of Ontic Structural Realism

French, Steven; Ladyman, James

Pages: 25 –42

[In this paper we clarify how ‘epistemic’ (ESR) and ‘ontic’ structural realism (OSR) should be understood and reply to some important criticisms of the latter. We shall begin with an outline of the historical origins of what might broadly be called the ‘structuralist tendency’ within philosophy...
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Chapter 3Structuralist Approaches to Physics: Objects, Models and Modality

Brading, Katherine

Pages: 43 –65

[My goal is to develop a structuralist approach to the objects of physics that is realist – but there are obstacles in the way. This paper is about three of them. The first is familiar, having received a great deal of attention in the recent literature, and concerns the suggestion by structural...
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Chapter 4Mathematical Structural Realism

Pincock, Christopher

Pages: 67 –79

[Unrestricted or global scientific realism is the view that we should take seriously the whole content of empirically successful scientific theories. This attitude requires us to believe that the theoretical claims of the theory are true, or approximately true, and that scientific progress...
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Chapter 5Structural Empiricism, Again

Bueno, Otávio

Pages: 81 –103

[As is well known, there are two crucial arguments in the realism debate. According to the no-miracles argument, it would be a miracle if our best scientific theories – namely, those which successfully predict novel phenomena – were not true (or approximately true). So, we should take theories...
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Chapter 6Structural Realism: Continuity and Its Limits

Votsis, Ioannis

Pages: 105 –117

[Structural realism comes in various shapes and sizes. First there is the epistemic kind which holds that at best we can have knowledge of the structure of the world. This comes in two main flavours: à la Ramsey (e.g. John Worrall and Elie Zahar 2001) claiming that the structure of the world is...
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Chapter 7Structuralism About Scientific Representation

Thomson-Jones, Martin

Pages: 119 –141

[I have two central aims in this paper, both relatively modest. The first is to present some ways of thinking about structuralism about scientific representation COMP: Please set ‘Chapter 7’ before the title and make the digit 7 be prefixed in all section heads in this chapter.. After...
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Chapter 8Ontic Structural Realism as a Metaphysics of Objects

Esfeld, Michael; Lam, Vincent

Pages: 143 –159

[In a first approach, ontic structural realism (OSR) is a realism towards physical structures in the sense of networks of concrete physical relations, without these relations being dependent on fundamental physical objects that possess an intrinsic identity as their relata. In that vein, OSR has...
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Chapter 9Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism

Dorato, Mauro; Felline, Laura

Pages: 161 –176

[An interpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics that can be regarded as uncontroversial is currently not available. Consequently, philosophers have often contrasted the poor explanatory power of quantum theory to its unparalleled predictive capacity. However, the admission that our best...

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