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- Book Title
- Structure of the World : Metaphysics and Representation
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199684847
ISBN-13
9780199684847
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175696674
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
414 Pages
Publication Name
Structure of the World : Metaphysics and Representation
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Movements / Realism, Movements / Structuralism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
27.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"...this superb defence of OSR deserves to be considered French's magnum opus. The book should be lauded for its scope, detail, and scientific sophistication. The intricacies of the view will be most accessible to those with a background in physics, but the discussion is of interest to those who work in metaphysics and philosophy of science broadly and should be required reading for those interested in scientific realism specifically." -- The Philosophical Quarterly
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
501
Table Of Content
1. Theory Change: From Fresnel's Equations to Group Theoretic Structure2. Mixing in the Metaphysics 1 - Underdermination3. Mixing in the Metaphysics 2 - Humility4. Scenes from the Lost History of Structuralism5. The Presentation of Objects and the Representation of Structure6. OSR and 'Group Structural Realism'7. The Elimination of Objects8. Mathematics, 'Physical' Structure and the Nature of Causation9. Modality, Structures, and Dispositions10. The Might of Modal Structuralism11. Structure, Modality, and Unitary Inequivalence12. Shifting to Structures in Biology and BeyondBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects in the world. He draws on metaphysics and philosophy of science to argue for structural realism--the position that we live in a world of structures--and defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology., In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world of structures and making sense of that view is the central aim of the increasingly widespread position known as structural realism. Drawing on contemporary work in metaphysics and philosophy of science, as well as the 'forgotten' history of structural realism itself, French attempts to further ground and develop this position. He argues that structural realism offers the best way of balancing our need to accommodate the results of modern science with our desire to arrive at an appropriately informed understanding of the world that science presents to us. Covering not only the realism-antirealism debate, the nature of representation, and the relationship between metaphysics and science, The Structure of the World defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology. In place of a world of microscopic objects banging into one another and governed by the laws of physics, it offers a world of laws and symmetries, on which determinate physical properties are dependent. In presenting this account, French also tackles the distinction between mathematical and physical structures, the nature of laws, and causality in the context of modern physics, and he concludes by exploring the extent to which structural realism can be extended into chemistry and biology., In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world of structures and making sense of that view is the central aim of the increasingly widespread position known as structural realism. Drawing on contemporary work in metaphysics and philosophy of science, as well as the "forgotten" history of structural realism itself, French attempts to further ground and develop this position. He argues that structural realism offers the best way of balancing our need to accommodate the results of modern science with our desire to arrive at an appropriately informed understanding of the world that science presents to us. Covering not only the realism-antirealism debate, the nature of representation, and the relationship between metaphysics and science, The Structure of the World defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology. In place of a world of microscopic objects banging into one another and governed by the laws of physics, it offers a world of laws and symmetries, on which determinate physical properties are dependent. In presenting this account, French also tackles the distinction between mathematical and physical structures, the nature of laws, and causality in the context of modern physics, and he concludes by exploring the extent to which structural realism can be extended into chemistry and biology., In The Structure of the World , Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects . At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world of structures and making sense of that view is the central aim of the increasingly widespread position known as structural realism . Drawing on contemporary work in metaphysics and philosophy of science, as well as the 'forgotten' history of structural realism itself, French attempts to further ground and develop this position. He argues that structural realism offers the best way of balancing our need to accommodate the results of modern science with our desire to arrive at an appropriately informed understanding of the world that science presents to us. Covering not only the realism-antirealism debate, the nature of representation, and the relationship between metaphysics and science, The Structure of the World defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology. In place of a world of microscopic objects banging into one another and governed by the laws of physics, it offers a world of laws and symmetries, on which determinate physical properties are dependent. In presenting this account, French also tackles the distinction between mathematical and physical structures, the nature of laws, and causality in the context of modern physics, and he concludes by exploring the extent to which structural realism can be extended into chemistry and biology.
LC Classification Number
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