Dorato, Mauro (2015) The physical world as a blob: is OSR really realism? [Preprint]
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Abstract
This paper is critical review of Steven French's The Structure of the World: Metaphysics & Representation (OUP, 2014). My main point is that French's version of OSR navigates between the Scilla of Tegmark’s Pitagoreanism (2008) and the Caribdi of “blobobjectivism” (Horgan and Potrč 2008), namely the claim that the whole physical universe is a single concrete structurally complex but partless cosmos (a “blob”).
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Keywords: | Ontic Structural Realism, Laws, Group structural Realism, Object | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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Depositing User: | Dr Mauro Dorato | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2015 12:26 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2015 12:26 | ||||||
Item ID: | 11698 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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Date: | 30 September 2015 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11698 |
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