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Bayesian realism and structural representation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022Abstract We challenge the authors' view that Markov blankets are illicitly reified when used to describe organismic boundaries. We do this both on general methodological grounds, where we appeal to a form of structural realism derived from Bayesian cognitive science to dissolve the problem, and by rebutting specific arguments in the target article.
Alex Kiefer, Jakob Hohwy
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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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