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How Ontic Structural Realism would Formalize Scientific Progress
ATHENS JOURNAL OF SCIENCES, 2021 This essay tries to make a tangential cut between the debate that seeks the most adequate definition of scientific progress (involving authors such as K. Popper, T Kuhn, A Bird or J Saatsi) and the debate on the viability of structural realism to be considered the best epistemological approach to the understanding of nature (B van Fraassen, J Ladyman ...
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THE REVOLUTIONARY'S TWO TEMPORALITIES? Activism, Failure, and Uneventing
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 697-725, November 2025.ABSTRACT Radical activists assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects and for their potential longer‐term consequences. Provisional failures can become resources for future victories, while erstwhile successes can dissolve after apparent achievement. Drawing from ethnography with Burmese revolutionaries, this article shows how activists
ELLIOTT PRASSE‐FREEMAN
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Ontic Structural Realism and Natural Necessity [PDF]
, 2015 J. Ladyman (1998-2009), Ladyman and Ross (2007) refine J. Worral's (1998) structural realism (SR), by developing an ontic structural realism (OSR) which they argue is a consistently naturalistic means of characterizing the ontology of fundamental physics.
Kallfelz, William
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The physics and metaphysics of primitive stuff [PDF]
, 2014 The paper sets out a primitive ontology of the natural world in terms of primitive stuff, that is, stuff that has as such no physical properties at all, but that is not a bare substratum either, being individuated by metrical relations.
Esfeld, Michael +3 more
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Realismo Estructural Óntico y estructuras físicas
ManuscritoRESUMEN El Realismo Estructural Óntico (REO) afirma que la ontología del mundo físico debe ser (re)concebida de modo que las puras estructuras sean sus entidades básicas. Objetos y propiedades deben ser eliminados en favor de las estructuras. No obstante,
Bruno Borge
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Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 1439-1448, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT Contemporary systems thinking occurs in an increasingly fractured world. To think about systems is to be a part of a multitude of worlds that possess many inherent contradictions. Although contemporary systems thinking constantly oscillates between universality (i.e., the general systems theory genealogy) and diversity (e.g., the social ...
Jonathon Mackay
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Moderate structural realism about space-time [PDF]
, 2018 This paper sets out a moderate version of metaphysical structural realism that stands in contrast to both the epistemic structural realism of Worrall and the—radical—ontic structural realism of French and Ladyman. According to moderate structural realism,
Esfeld, Michael, Lam, Vincent
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Thinking Against Humanism? Heidegger on the Human Essence, the Inhuman, and Evil
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 660-681, June 2025.Abstract In his ‘Letter on “Humanism”’, Martin Heidegger advances a critique of humanism while insisting that this critique does not imply that he ‘advocates the inhuman’. There are two reasons why Heidegger might be concerned to rebut this accusation.
Jack Wearing
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On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality [PDF]
, 2018 We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory and instrumental context.
Dardashti, Radin +3 more
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Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 264-279, April 2025.Abstract This article endeavors to conduct a comparative analysis between the philosophical systems of Plotinus and classical Sāṃkhya, two distinct philosophical traditions characterized by their substantial historical and cultural contexts. The primary aim of the study is to discern and evaluate the fundamental themes inherent in these philosophical ...
Federico Divino
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