Structural Realism: Structure, Object, and Causality

✍ Scribed by Steven French (auth.), Elaine Landry, Dean Rickles (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 226
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 77
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on the idea that a central role is to be played by relational aspects over object-based aspects of ontology. What becomes of causality in a world without fundamental objects? In this book, the foremost authorities on structural realism attempt to answer this and related questions: ‘what is structure?’ and ‘what is an object?’ Also featured are the most recent advances in structural realism, including the intersection of mathematical structuralism and structural realism, and the latest treatments of laws and modality in the context of structural realism. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of physics, metaphysicians, and those interested in foundational aspects of science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Presentation of Objects and the Representation of Structure....Pages 3-28
Methodological Structural Realism....Pages 29-57
How Not to Be a Realist....Pages 59-76
Miracles and Structural Realism....Pages 77-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Underdetermination as a Path to Structural Realism....Pages 99-115
Kinds of Objects and Varieties of Properties....Pages 117-133
Time, Observables, and Structure....Pages 135-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Ontic Structural Realism and Modality....Pages 149-168
Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration and Critique....Pages 169-185
Ontological Priority: The Conceptual Basis of Non-eliminative, Ontic Structural Realism....Pages 187-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-209

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science;History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics;Metaphysics;Epistemology

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