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On fundamental relata : objects, individuals, and non-individuals in ontic structural realism
, 2022 Ontic structural realism is the view that structure is fundamental. This view is at odds with a long-standing tradition in metaphysics which takes the fundamental structure of reality to consist of individuals.
Wolf, Thilde
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2017 This article is an overview of the philosophy of informatics with a special regard to some Polish philosophers. It juxtaposes the informationistic worldview with the long-prevailing mechanical conceptualization of nature before introducing the ...
Paweł Polak
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Family Process, Volume 65, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Commemorative naming—naming a child after a deceased family member—is a culturally rooted practice with profound emotional and relational implications. Although previous research has explored naming traditions from sociological and cultural angles, little attention has been given to the psychological experience of those who carry such names ...
S. Shorer, M. Mahat‐Shamir
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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2005 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the various types of physical universe which could exist according to modern mathematical physics. The paper begins with an introduction that approaches the question from the viewpoint of ontic structural realism ...
Gordon McCabe
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Structural Realism and Abductive-Transcendental Arguments [PDF]
, 2007 The paper deals with an attempt to present an “abductive-transcendental” argument in favour of a particular version of structural realism (SR), dubbed Intermediate SR.
Lyre, Holger
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Ontic Structural Realism, Information, and Natural Necessity: Where Naturalism and Analytic Metaphysics Can Find Common Ground [PDF]
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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Against Ontic Structural Realism
, 2012 This paper is about so-called ontic structural realism. An argument in favour of this metaphysically radical form of scientific realism is reconstructed on the basis of the existing literature, and its premises are critically assessed.
MORGANTI, MATTEO
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, 2005 What is the ultimate nature of reality? This paper defends an answer in terms of informational realism (IR). It does so in three stages. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural ...
Floridi, Luciano
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