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Structural Realism : Structure, Object, and Causality / edited by Elaine Landry, Dean Rickles
(The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields. ISSN:22151974 ; 77)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2012
Edition	1st ed. 2012.
Authors	Landry, Elaine editor Rickles, Dean editor SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00168459		Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks (電子ブック)	9789400725799

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XVI, 212 p : online resource
Notes	Part I Frameworks for Structuralism -- 1 The Presentation of Objects and the Representation of Structure -- 2 Methodological Structural Realism -- 3 How Not to be a Structural Realist -- 4 Miracles and Structural Realism -- Part II Structure and the Nature of Objects -- 5 Underdetermination as a Path to Structural Realism -- 6 Continuity, Structural Realism, and Scales -- 7 Kinds of Objects and Varieties of Properties -- 8 Grounding Structure in Partial Observables -- Part III Causality, Laws, and Dispositions -- 9 Ontic Structural Realism and Modality -- 10 Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration and Critique -- 11 Ontological Priority -- Index Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on the idea that a central role is to be played by relational aspects over object-based aspects of ontology. What becomes of causality in a world without fundamental objects? In this book, the foremost authorities on structural realism attempt to answer this and related questions: ‘what is structure?’ and ‘what is an object?’ Also featured are the most recent advances in structural realism, including the intersection of mathematical structuralism and structural realism, and the latest treatments of laws and modality in the context of structural realism. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of physics, metaphysicians, and those interested in foundational aspects of science HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2579-9
Subjects	LCSH:Science—Philosophy LCSH:Physics—Philosophy LCSH:Metaphysics LCSH:Knowledge, Theory of FREE:Philosophy of Science FREE:Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy FREE:Metaphysics FREE:Epistemology
Classification	LCC:Q174-175.3 LCC:B67 DC23:501
ID	8000020101
ISBN	9789400725799