Saunders, Simon (2001) Structural Realism, Again. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The paper defends a view of structural realism similar to that of French and Ladyman, although it differs from theirs in an important respect: I do not take indistinguishabiity of particles in quantum mechanics to have the significance they think it has. It also differs from Cao's view of structural realism, criticized in my "Critical Notice: Cao's `The Conceptual Development of 20th Century Field Theories".
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| Item Type: | Preprint |
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| Keywords: | Structural Realism, Cao, Objecthood, indistinguishability, French, Ladyman, quantum field theory, problem of measurement. |
| Subjects: | General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
| Depositing User: | Simon W. Saunders |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2001 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:10 |
| Item ID: | 462 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/462 |
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