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El realismo estructural a debate: matemáticas, ontología y representación
Revista de Filosofia, 2009 The aim of this paper is to undermine structural realism by testing the soundness of its three main theses. The first section presents the epistemic and ontic forms of structural realism.
Carlos M. Madrid Casado
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Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 205-228, April 2025.Abstract The recent translation into English of Klaus Hemmerle's Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology has led to a renewed interest in ontology and in the construction of new trinitarian ontologies. In his Theses, Hemmerle argues that a new trinitarian ontology discloses a new order of things: the analogy of Being becomes an analogy of the Trinity.
Teresa Grace Brown
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Some comments on "The Mathematical Universe"
, 2009 I discuss some problems related to extreme mathematical realism, focusing on a recently proposed "shut-up-and-calculate" approach to physics (arXiv:0704.0646, arXiv:0709.4024).
A. Einstein +24 more
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PhilosophiesThis article develops a structural–analogical framework to investigate conceptual resonances between Qur’an 24:35—the Verse of Light—and contemporary relational models in physics, while maintaining firm epistemic boundaries between theology, philosophy ...
Adil Guler
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Family Process, Volume 64, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This article aims to present the basic tenets of contextual therapy and its treatment goals, methodology, and theory of change. It provides an orientation for readers who are new to the approach and should serve as an updated frame of reference for readers already familiar with it. An important contribution of this article is that it clarifies
Catherine Ducommun‐Nagy
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How properties hold together in Substances [PDF]
, 2016 This article aims to clarify how aspects of current chemical understanding relate to some important contemporary problems of philosophy. The first section points out that the long-running philosophical debates concerning how properties stay together in ...
E. Earley, Joseph
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The Ontology of Quantum Field Theory: Structural Realism Vindicated? [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I elicit a prediction from structural realism and compare it, not to a historical case, but to a contemporary scientific theory. If structural realism is correct, then we should expect physics to develop theories that fail to provide an ...
Glick, David
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Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 447-459, February 2025.Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical consensus, the system makes it so. I label this phenomenon system‐dependent truth. This paper advances a theory of performative truthmaking, wherein the agencies
Elliott Hauser
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, 2018 This essay is about how the notion of “structure” in ontic structuralism might be made precise. More specifically, my aim is to make precise the idea that the structure of the world is (somehow) given by the relations inhering in the world, in such a way
Dewar, Neil
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Psychoneural reduction revised: The case of suicidality in bipolar disorder
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2025.Multidimensional frameworks fare better than reductionist, level‐based ones at comprehensively accounting for psychiatric phenomena. To demonstrate this, suicidality in bipolar disorder is used as a case study. In bipolar disorder, suicidality is traceable to the complex interplay of biological, psychosocial, environmental and experiential factors, and
Sidney Carls‐Diamante, Nina Atanasova
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