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Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique [PDF]

Studia Philosophiae Christianae
In this paper I address the problem of justifying Steven French’s eliminative ontic structural realism by the metaphysical underdetermination argument.
Damian Luty
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Preferring Ontic Structural Realism over Epistemic Structural Realism in Light of Semantically Interpreted Theories

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
The aims of the article are related to comparing two versions of structural realism: epistemic structural realism (ESR) and ontic structural realism (OSR).
Damian Luty
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No Categorial Support for Radical Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2015
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Lam, Vincent, Wüthrich, Christian
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Is There a Compelling Argument for Ontic Structural Realism? [PDF]

Philosophy of Science, 2011
Structural realism first emerged as an epistemological thesis aimed to avoid the so-called pessimistic metainduction on the history of science. Some authors, however, have suggested that the preservation of structure across theory change is best explained by endorsing the metaphysical thesis that structure is all there is.
Morganti, Matteo
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Ontic Structural Realism and the Case of the Missing Kantian Residue

Análisis Filosófico
As the name suggests, Ontic Structural Realism (OSR) entails the claim that structure is all there is. However, several critics have argued that OSR’s ontology is incomplete.
Ragnar Van der Merwe
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Dispositional Essentialism and Ontic Structural Realism - a hybrid view [PDF]

, 2020
Dispositional Essentialism and Ontic Structural Realism aim to account for modality. Dispositional Essentialism takes properties to account for laws. In particular, it takes determinate properties to account for laws of nature (Bird, 2007), which are ...
Godfrey, Julie Mary
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Radical ontic structural realism as a structuralist existence monism

SynthÈse
Abstract Radical ontic structural realism (ROSR) argues that structure is all that there is and that objects are metaphysically eliminable. By making such claims, ROSR is widely considered metaphysically obscure. To address this, I propose a novel characterisation of ROSR, drawing on two metaphysical concepts: existence monism, attributed to ...
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A Critical Review of Mario Alai’s Solution to the Problem of Underdetermination of Quantum Mechanics Theories in Defense of Scientific Realism [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022
Empirical underdetermination is one of the problems that challenges the position of scientific realism regarding the unobservable level of scientific theories.
Jalal Abdollahi, Seyyed Hedayat Sajadi
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FROM SCIENTIFIC STRUCTURALISM TO TRANSCENDENTAL STRUCTURALISM [PDF]

Kriterion, 2016
In the current debate between scientific realism and empiricism, both sides seem to embrace some sort of structuralism as an important component of their descriptions of science.
Patricia Kauark-Leite, Ronaldo Penna Neves   +1 more
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PROCESS-BASED ENTITIES ARE RELATIONAL STRUCTURES. From Whitehead to Structuralism

Manuscrito, 2021
The aim of this work is to argue for the idea that processes and process-based entities are to be modelled as relational structures. Relational structures are genuine structures, namely entities not committed to the existence of basic objects.
Francesco Maria Ferrari
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