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...