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Madhyamaka and Ontic Structural Realism

Asian Journal of Philosophy
AbstractI’ll argue that one particular argument of Nāgārjuna’s against causation in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā deserves careful consideration from the perspective of contemporary western metaphysics. To show why this is the case, I’ll offer an interpretation of the key passages which differs from at least one popular reading. I’ll then aim to show that a
Toby Friend
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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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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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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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Defending Many Worlds via Case Discrimination: An Attempt to Showcase the Conceptual Incoherence of Anti-Realist Interpretations and Relational Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Reports, 2023
In this work, an alternative attempt to motivate the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) is undertaken. The usual way of arguing for MWI mostly revolves around how it might solve the measurement problem in a more straightforward and concise manner than ...
Michael Huber
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Una ontología modal de relaciones para la mecánica cuántica

Culturas Cientificas, 2023
En correspondencia con las interpretaciones modales de la mecánica cuántica, Lombardi y Castagnino (2008) y da Costa, Lombardi y Lastiri (2013) han propuesto para dicha teoría una ontología de haces de propiedades posibles intrínsecas, centrada ...
Matias Daniel Pasqualini
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Towards an objectless ontology: A defence of ontic structural realism at the methodological level

Filosofia Unisinos, 2013
In the context of contemporary debates on scientific realism, structural realism(SR), explicitly introduced by John Worrall (1989), has shown to be one of the most vigorous philosophical proposals.
Bruno José Borge
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