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Reconciling Ontic Structural Realism and Ontological Emergence

Foundations of Science, 2022
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João L. Cordovil, Gil C. Santos, John Symons   +2 more
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The Modal Nature of Structures in Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2009
Ontic structural realism is the view that structures are what is real in the first place in the domain of fundamental physics. The structures are usually conceived as including a primitive modality. However, it has not been spelled out as yet what exactly that modality amounts to.
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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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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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Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique

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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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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Priority and Particle Physics: Ontic Structural Realism as a Fundamentality Thesis [PDF]

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2014
In this article, I address concerns that the ontological priority claims definitive of ontic structural realism are as they stand unclear, and I do so by placing these claims on a more rigorous formal footing than they typically have been hitherto. I first of all argue that Kit Fine’s analysis of ontological dependence furnishes us with an ontological ...
Kerry Mckenzie
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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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Radical ontic structural realism as a structuralist existence monism

Synthese
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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The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Representational drift is a phenomenon of increasing interest in the cognitive and neural sciences. While investigations are ongoing for other sensory cortices, recent research has demonstrated the pervasiveness in which it occurs in the piriform cortex for olfaction.
Ann‐Sophie Barwich, Gabriel J. Severino   +1 more
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