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Structural Realism

Part of the The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 77)

Editors: Landry, Elaine; Rickles, Dean

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2579-9

ISBN: 978-94-007-2578-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 25, 2011

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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The Presentation of Objects and the Representation of Structure

French, Steven

Pages: 3 –28

[The rise and development of various forms of structuralism (including structural realism and structural empiricism) has seen a concomitant array of diverse representations of structure placed on the table, from Ramsey sentences and mathematical equations, to the group-, set- and...
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Methodological Structural Realism

Landry, Elaine M.

Pages: 29 –57

[Scientists believe in the existence of electrons, bosons, fermions, fields, forces, space-time, etc.; they, unlike their philosophical realist counterparts, do not believe, however, in the existence of phenomena or noumena, observables or unobservables, detection or auxiliary properties, etc....
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How Not to Be a Realist

Votsis, Ioannis

Pages: 59 –76

[When it comes to name-calling, structural realists have heard pretty much all of it. Among the many insults, they have been called ‘empiricist anti-realists’ but also ‘traditional scientific realists’. Obviously the collapse accusations that motivate these two insults cannot both be true at the...
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Miracles and Structural Realism

Worrall, John

Pages: 77 –95

[Structural realism claims to be the ‘best of both worlds’ by reconciling the two main considerations in the scientific realism debate–the No Miracles Argument (NMA) and the Pessimistic Induction (PI)–which had initially seemed to pull in opposite directions. More recently both the NMA and the PI...
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Underdetermination as a Path to Structural Realism

Brading, Katherine; Skiles, Alexander

Pages: 99 –115

[We examine the argument for ontic structural realism that begins from an alleged “metaphysical underdetermination” afflicting contemporary fundamental physics. Current discussions have focussed on challenging this underdetermination claim. Our purpose here is to examine what follows even if the...
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Kinds of Objects and Varieties of Properties

Nounou, Antigone M.

Pages: 117 –133

[The modern debate around scientific structuralism has revealed the need to reassess the standing and role of both structure and objects in the metaphysics of physics. Ontic structural realism recommends that metaphysics be purged of objects. Nonetheless, its proponents have failed to specify...
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Time, Observables, and Structure

Rickles, Dean P.

Pages: 135 –145

[In this chapter I consider what recent work on background independent physics can do for structuralism, and what structuralism can do for background independent physics. I focus on the problems of time and observables in gravitational physics. The ‘frozen’ character of the observables of general...
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Ontic Structural Realism and Modality

Berenstain, Nora; Ladyman, James

Pages: 149 –168

[There is good reason to believe that scientific realism requires a commitment to the objective modal structure of the physical world. Causality, equilibrium, laws of nature, and probability all feature prominently in scientific theory and explanation, and each one is a modal notion. If we are...
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Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration and Critique

Psillos, Stathis

Pages: 169 –185

[In an attempt to pursue further my (hopefully constructive) criticism of Ontic Structuralism I want to examine in some detail a key recent idea that seems to shape the very kernel of this view, viz., that structures are modal. In Section 9.2, I argue that OS has to work with a notion of...
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Ontological Priority: The Conceptual Basis of Non-eliminative, Ontic Structural Realism

Chakravartty, Anjan

Pages: 187 –206

[The number of positions identified with structural realism in philosophical debates about scientific knowledge has grown significantly in the past decade, particularly with respect to the metaphysical or “ontic” approach (OSR). In recent years, several advocates of OSR have proposed a novel...

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