Structural Realism Structure, Object, and Causality /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Landry, Elaine (Editor), Rickles, Dean (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 77
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.