Structural Realism: Structure, Object, and Causality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9400725809 ISBN 13: 9789400725805

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400725809
• ISBN 13: 9789400725805
• Binding: Paperback