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Minimal Information Structural Realism [PDF]
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2017 This paper presents Minimal Information Structural Realism (MISR), that claims that information (signified by I) is an ontologically and epistemologically objective entity (signified by R) and is apprehended as, but not identical to structures perceived ...
Roman Krzanowski
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Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation [PDF]
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016 In this paper I challenge and adjudicate between the two positions that have come to prominence in the scientific realism debate: deployment realism and structural realism.
Lyons, Timothy D.
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Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]
Philosophy Compass, 2017 Ontic structural realism (OSR) is at its core the view that structure is ontologically fundamental. Informed from its inception by the revolutions of 20th century science, it is claimed to provide the perspective on ontology most befitting of modern ...
McKenzie, Kerry
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Structural realism for secondary qualities [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2014 This paper outlines and defends a novel position in the color realism debate, namely structural realism. This position is novel in that it dissociates the veridicality of color attributions from the claim that physical objects are themselves colored. Thus, it is realist about color in both the semantic and epistemic senses, but not the ontic sense. The
A. A. Koulakov +50 more
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Aristotle, the Pythagoreans, and Structural Realism [PDF]
, 2016 Aristotle’s main objection to Pythagorean number ontology is that it posits as a basic subject what can exist only as inherent in a subject. I then show how contemporary structural realists posit an ontology much like that of Aristotle’s Pythagoreans ...
Owen Goldin
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Zhuangzi’s Copernican Revolution from the Perspective of Structural Realism [PDF]
Religions, 2023 This article discusses Zhuangzi’s metaphysical theory from the standpoint of a form of structural ontology that was developed by neurophilosopher Northoff and which differs from typical studies of Zhuangzi’s metaphysics.
Liqi Feng, Yuanxiao Ma
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Czech Journal of International Relations, 2004 The works Writingsof Buzan, Waever and their colleagues from COPRI represent the turning point in security analysis and in conceptualiszation of security in the first half of the 1990's.
Šárka Waisová
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Structural realism - the search for a bearer of reality [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2016 In the last two decades the old debate concerning reality of science shifted from questions regarding scientific entities to questions regarding scientific structures. I will present and assess advantages and drawback of this new realists’ focus
Stojanović Milutin
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Ramseyfication and structural realism
Theoria, 2010 The Ramsey-sentence H* of any hypothesis H is shown to be a synthetic proposition containing mathematics as a finite component. Far from being quasi-tautological, H* proves to have as much physical content as H itself.
Elie G. ZAHAR
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Possible physical universes [PDF]
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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