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A defence of informational structural realism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This is the revised version of an invited keynote lecture delivered at the 1st Australian Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP@AU; the Australian National University in Canberra, 31 October–2 November, 2003). The paper is divided into two parts. The first part defends an informational approach to structural realism. It does so in three steps. First,
Luciano Floridi +2 more
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Grounds and Structural Realism [PDF]
Symposion, 2017 Bianca-Alexandra Savu ABSTRACT: This article discusses the proposal of accommodating grounding theories and structural realism, with the aim to provide a metaphysical framework for structural realism.
Savu, Bianca-Alexandra
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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, mathematics, and ontology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2019 Over the last two decades structural realism has been given progressively more elaborated formulations. Steven French has been at the forefront of the development of the most conceptually sophisticated and historically sensitive version of the view. In his book, The Structure of the World (French (2014)), French shows how structural realism, the view ...
Bueno, Otávio
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Structural Realism, Scientific Change, and Partial Structures
Studia Logica, 2008 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Bueno, Otávio
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HOLISM AND STRUCTURAL REALISM [PDF]
Worldviews, Science and Us: Studies of Analytical Metaphysics, 2009 We first introduce structural realism as a position in the metaphysics of science, pointing out the way in which this position replaces intrinsic properties with relations so that it amounts to a holistic in contrast to an atomistic metaphysics. We argue in favour of a moderate version of structural realism that puts objects and relations on the same ...
Esfeld, Michael, Lam, Vincent
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Structures and Structural Realism [PDF]
Logic Journal of the IGPL, 2005 Summary: The `ontic' form of structural realism (OSR), roughly speaking, admits a complete elimination of the objects in the discourse of scientific theories, leaving us with structures only. As put by the defenders of such a claim, the idea is that all there is are structures and, if the relevant structures are to be set-theoretical constructs ...
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Group Structural Realism [PDF]
, 2009 We present a precise form of structural realism, called 'group structural realism,' which identifies 'structure' in quantum theory with symmetry groups.
Roberts, Bryan W., Bryan W. Roberts
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Structural Realism, again [PDF]
Synthese, 2003 The paper defends a view of structural realism similar to that of French and Ladyman, although it differs from theirs in an important respect: I do not take indistinguishabiity of particles in quantum mechanics to have the significance they think it has.
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Moderate structural realism about space-time [PDF]
, 2006 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.
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