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How to account for quantum non-locality: ontic structural realism and the primitive ontology of quantum physics [PDF]

, 2014
The paper has two aims: (1) it sets out to show that it is well motivated to seek for an account of quantum non-locality in the framework of ontic structural realism (OSR), which integrates the notions of holism and non-separability that have been ...
Esfeld, Michael
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Converting Consumerism: A Liturgical-Ethical Application of Critical Realism

Religions, 2019
Critical realism as a lens of thought is not new to theological inquiry, but recently a growing number of theologians have been using its conceptual frameworks to guide their thought on how social structures function theologically, and how ethics might ...
Benjamin Durheim
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How properties hold together in Substances [PDF]

, 2016
This article aims to clarify how aspects of current chemical understanding relate to some important contemporary problems of philosophy. The first section points out that the long-running philosophical debates concerning how properties stay together in ...
E. Earley, Joseph
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Neorealizm hegemoniczny jako recepta na mankamenty realizmu strukturalnego [PDF]

Przegląd Geopolityczny
Since the final decades of the last century, structural realism (neorealism) has become the dominant paradigm in the sciences of international relations as well as in geopolitics.
Marcin Adamczyk
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Neoclassical Realism and Contemporary Global Rivalry. Understanding the challenges [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Stosunki Międzynarodowe
The aim of this paper is to substantiate the research thesis that neoclassical realism is a useful tool in understanding and analyzing geopolitical global rivalry in the 21st century.
Marko Babic
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From Practice to Transformation: Regrounding Community-Based Adaptation in Critical Realism

Social Sciences
Community-based adaptation (CBA) has become a credible remedy to climate change adaptation, emphasizing local participation and community-defined priorities.
Paul Strikker, Tom Selje, Boris Heinz
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Empiricism, Structuralism and Scientific Change

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
In the last decades there was a structural turn in the classic debate between scientific realists and antirealists with empiricist orientation. Two main arguments support the realist conception: the ‘No Miracle Argument’ and the thesis of continuity. The
Susana Lucero
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Poincaré’s structural realism

Theoria, Beograd
In his famous article on epistemic structural realism from 1989, John Worrall ascribed this position to Hanri Poicar?, which opened a new way of looking at Poincar??s philosophy of science and provoked new debates concerning the interpretation of his stance. It is well known that Poincar? argued for conventional status of axioms of geometry
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Resolving the Quantitative-Qualitative Dilemma: A Critical Realist Approach [PDF]

, 2007
The philosophical issues underpinning the quantitative–qualitative divide in educational research are examined. Three types of argument which support a resolution are considered: pragmatism, false duality and warranty through triangulation. In addition a
Scott, David
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Structuralism as a Response to Skepticism [PDF]

, 2018
Cartesian arguments for global skepticism about the external world start from the premise that we cannot know that we are not in a Cartesian scenario such as an evil-demon scenario, and infer that because most of our empirical beliefs are false in such a
Chalmers, David J.
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