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Structural Realism

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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Epistemic Informational Structural Realism

Minds and Machines, 2016
The paper surveys Floridi's attempt for laying down informational structural realism (ISR). After considering a number of reactions to the pars destruens of Floridi's attack on the digital ontology, I show that Floridi's enterprise for enriching the ISR by borrowing elements from the ontic form of structural realism (in the pars construens) is blighted
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Realism and the Structures of Fantasy

2022
Abstract When we look at realism through the lens of fantasy rather than as a contrast with it, its constructed nature becomes more evident. The notion of what is realistic changes continually, but it is generally restricted to stories that are not merely possible but probable.
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Melia and Saatsi on structural realism

Synthese, 2009
Newman’s objection is sometimes taken to be a fatal objection to structural realism (SR). However, ambiguity in the definition of “structure” allows for versions that do not succumb to Newman’s objection. In this paper, I consider some versions of SR that maintain an abstract notion of structure yet avoid Newman’s objection.
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Structural Realism

2013
Structural realism is considered by many realists and antirealists alike as the most defensible form of scientific realism. There are now many forms of structural realism and an extensive literature about them. There are interesting connections with debates in metaphysics, philosophy of physics and philosophy of mathematics.
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Realism about Structure

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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Reconsidering Structural Realism

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2003
In 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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Methodological Structural Realism

2011
Scientists 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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Structuralism and Scientific Realism

1983
(0.0) Professor Stegmuller’ part in developing the so-called “structuralist view” of empirical theories is well known. It has been my privilege and pleasure to be associated with him in this enterprise. My contribution to this volume honoring Professor Stegmuller is an attempt to illuminate some rather general philosophical issues that have been raised
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Structural Realism and Interconnectivity

2003
As a theory, now decades old, it has been said that structural realism has run its course in explanations of international relations in the post—Cold War era. Presumably this is because since the end of the Cold War, there is now as expected the long-term absence of a major war between the major states.
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