Holder, Justin (2022) Poincaré’s Radical Ontology. [Preprint]
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I present an exegesis of Henri Poincaré’s metaphysical position in three key essays within his book, The Value of Science. In doing so, I argue for three theses: First, that Poincaré’s metaphysical position in these sources is incompatible with his metaphysical position in his earlier book, Science and Hypothesis. Second, that the phenomenological relationism defended by Poincaré in these sources is not a form of structural realism but a structuralist form of empiricism, and (by design) has no greater metaphysical commitments than constructive empiricism. Third, that Poincaré holds in these sources that the existence of the external world is merely a convention. These theses serve to correct misconceptions about the consistency of Poincaré’s philosophical corpus, about his position(s) on the realism/anti-realism landscape, and about the scope of his conventionalism.
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| Keywords: | Henri Poincaré; conventionalism; structural realism; anti-realism; history of philosophy of science | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Conventionalism General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Justin Holder | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2024 12:01 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2024 12:01 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 24090 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Conventionalism General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | 14 August 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24090 |
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