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Structural Realism or Modal Empiricism? [PDF]

, 2017
Structural realism has been suggested as the best compromise in the debate on scientific realism. It proposes that we should be realist about the relational structure of the world, not its nature.
Ruyant, Quentin
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Singularist Semirealism [PDF]

, 2013
This paper proposes to carve out a new position in the scientific realism/antirealism debate and argue that it captures some of the most important realist and some of the most important antirealist considerations.
Nanay, Bence
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Sr. Realista estructural, tenemos un problema: la carga ontológica de las matemáticas

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2010
The aim of this note is to undermine structural realism by testing the soundness of its main claim. If scientific theories represent the structure of the world, structural realism needs a general account of representation.
Carlos M. Madrid Casado
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A possible Answer to Newman’s Objection from the perspective of informational structural realism [PDF]

, 2015
This paper aims to reconstruct a possible answer to the classical Newman’s objection which has been used countless times to argue against structural realism.
Marin, Lavinia
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Critiques of Axiological Realism and Surrealism [PDF]

, 2020
Lyons’s (2003, 2018) axiological realism holds that science pursues true theories. I object that despite its name, it is a variant of scientific antirealism, and is susceptible to all the problems with scientific antirealism.
Park, Seungbae
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El realismo estructural a debate: matemáticas, ontología y representación

Revista de Filosofia, 2009
The aim of this paper is to undermine structural realism by testing the soundness of its three main theses. The first section presents the epistemic and ontic forms of structural realism.
Carlos M. Madrid Casado
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The Realistic Angel: Pictorial Realism as Hypothetical Verity [PDF]

, 2015
My main objective in this paper is to formulate a view of pictorial realism I call ‘hypothetical verity’. It owes much to John Kulvicki but diverges from his view in an important respect: rather than thinking that realistic pictures
Buckman, Christopher
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Actors and networks or agents and structures: towards a realist view of information systems [PDF]

, 2007
Actor-network theory (ANT) has achieved a measure of popularity in the analysis of information systems. This paper looks at ANT from the perspective of the social realism of Margaret Archer.
Alistair Mutch, Amsterdamska, O., Baumard, P., Bourdieu, P., Calhoun, C., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Checkland, P., Ciborra, C., Collier, A., Collins, H.M., Currie, W., Dahlbom, B., Dennett, D.C., Edelman, G.M., Fowler, B., Fuller, S., Grint, K., Jones, M., Lakoff, G., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Law, J., Law, J., Mutch, A., Norris, C., O'Brien, F., Roberts, R.H., Rose, H., Rose, H., Rose, S., Sayer, A., Searle, J.R., Singer, P., Sokal, A., Sokal, A.D., Walsham, G., Watson, T., Whitelegg, J., Whitley, R., Wilde, O.   +43 more
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The Anti-Induction for Scientific Realism [PDF]

, 2018
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are regarded as the strongest arguments for and against scientific realism, respectively. In this paper, I construct a new argument for scientific realism which
Park, Seungbae
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Realismo/Anti-Realismo [PDF]

, 2014
State of the art paper on the topic realism/anti-realism. The first part of the paper elucidates the notions of existence and independence of the metaphysical characterization of the realism/anti-realism dispute.
Castro, Eduardo
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