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2022
Abstract Chapter 12 conveys structural realism. Structural realism focuses on how the distribution of capabilities at the level of the international system impacts its propensity for conflict. States face a situation of self-help and can be expected to engage in power balancing for their own protection.
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Abstract Chapter 12 conveys structural realism. Structural realism focuses on how the distribution of capabilities at the level of the international system impacts its propensity for conflict. States face a situation of self-help and can be expected to engage in power balancing for their own protection.
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2021
This chapter rebuts objections to the account, dispelling concerns about taking the mathematical structures of our best physical theories seriously. It outlines further aspects of the book’s realism about structure and explains what this realism is, and what it is not, committed to.
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This chapter rebuts objections to the account, dispelling concerns about taking the mathematical structures of our best physical theories seriously. It outlines further aspects of the book’s realism about structure and explains what this realism is, and what it is not, committed to.
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Structural realism beyond physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016The 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 ...
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1996
Abstract According to Kenneth N. Waltz, a founder of the approach, Structural Realism “presents a systematic portrait of international politics depicting component units according to the manner of their arrangement.”1 States, which are deemed the major actors in world affairs, are conceived as unitary actors motivated primarily by the ...
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Abstract According to Kenneth N. Waltz, a founder of the approach, Structural Realism “presents a systematic portrait of international politics depicting component units according to the manner of their arrangement.”1 States, which are deemed the major actors in world affairs, are conceived as unitary actors motivated primarily by the ...
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Reconsidering Structural Realism
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2003In the lengthy debate over the question of scientific realism one of the least discussed positions is structural realism. However, this position ought to attract critical attention because it purports to preserve the central insights of the best arguments for both realism and anti-realism.
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Structural Realism/Offensive and Defensive Realism
2017Structural 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.
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Methodological Structural Realism
2011Scientists believe in the existence of electrons, bosons, fermions, fields, forces, space-time, etc.; they, unlike their philosophical realist counterparts, do not believe, however, in the existence of phenomena or noumena, observables or unobservables, detection or auxiliary properties, etc.
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Structural realism, mathematics, and ontology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2019Over 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 ...
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Structural Realism, Scientific Change, and Partial Structures
Studia Logica, 2008zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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From Standard Scientific Realism and Structural Realism to Best Current Theory Realism
Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2011I defend a realist commitment to the truth of our most empirically successful current scientific theories—on the ground that it provides the best explanation of their success and the success of their falsified predecessors. I argue that this Best Current Theory Realism (BCTR) is superior to preservative realism (PR) and the structural realism (SR).
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