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A Metaphysics for Mathematical and Structural Realism

open access: greenStance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, 2009
The goal of this paper is to preserve realism in both ontology and truth for the philosophy of mathematics and science. It begins by arguing that scientific realism can only be attained given mathematical realism due to the indispensable nature of the latter to the prior.
Adam InTae Gerard
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Underdetermination and Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
One of the most important arguments against scientific realism is underdetermination, so realists should address the argument satisfactorily and give an appropriate response to it.
Saeed Masoumi
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Causal, Experimental, and Structural Realisms [PDF]

open access: greenMidwest Studies in Philosophy, 1988
Paul Humphreys
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A Critical Review of Mario Alai’s Solution to the Problem of Underdetermination of Quantum Mechanics Theories in Defense of Scientific Realism [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022
Empirical underdetermination is one of the problems that challenges the position of scientific realism regarding the unobservable level of scientific theories.
Jalal Abdollahi, Seyyed Hedayat Sajadi
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Cognitive Structural Realism

open access: greenStudies in Brain and Mind, 2019
Majid Davoody Beni
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Panpsychism and Structural Realism [PDF]

open access: green, 2011
Paper on structural realism and how its problems lend support to some kind of ...
Godehard Brüntrup
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Effective Ontic Structural Realism

open access: yesBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2023
Three accounts of effective realism (ER) have been advanced in this journal to solve three problems for scientific realism: Fraser and Vickers ([forthcoming]) develop a version of ER about non-relativistic quantum mechanics that they argue is compatible ...
J. Ladyman, Lorenzo Lorenzetti
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The ontology of quantum field theory: Structural realism vindicated? [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in history and philosophy of science, 2016
In this paper I elicit a prediction from structural realism and compare it, not to a historical case, but to a contemporary scientific theory. If structural realism is correct, then we should expect physics to develop theories that fail to provide an ...
David Glick
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