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On the Preferability of Epistemic Structural Realism

SynthÈse, 2004
In the last decade, structural realism has been presented as the most promising strategy for developing a defensible realist view of science. Nevertheless, controversy still continues in relation to the exact meaning of the proposed structuralism. The stronger version of structural realism, the so-called ontic structural realism, has been argued for on
Matteo Morganti
exaly   +4 more sources

Structural realism beyond physics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016
The main purpose of this paper is to test structural realism against (one example from) the historical record. I begin by laying out an existing challenge to structural realism - that of providing an example of a theory exhibiting successful structures that were abandoned - and show that this challenge can be met by the miasma theory of disease ...
Dana Tulodziecki
exaly   +3 more sources

Structural realism and the nature of structure

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2014
Ontic Structural Realism is a version of realism about science according to which by positing the existence of structures, understood as basic components of reality, one can resolve central difficulties faced by standard versions of scien- tific realism.
Jonas Rafael Becker Arenhart   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Structural Realism/Offensive and Defensive Realism

open access: yes, 2017
Structural realism, or neorealism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the most important factor in international relations. First outlined by Kenneth Waltz in his 1979 book Theory of International Politics, structural realism is subdivided into two factions: offensive realism and defensive realism.
Steven E. Lobell
openaire   +2 more sources

Structural realism, mathematics, and ontology

open access: yesStudies 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Moderate structural realism about space-time [PDF]

open access: yesSynthÈse, 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.
Michael Eßfeld   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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