Yaghmaie, Aboutorab and Ahmadi Kakavandi, Bijan (2025) Categorification of Perspectives. [Preprint]

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Abstract

To characterize scientific perspectivism as a realist stance, Massimi introduces her own notion of perspectival truth, which necessitates scientific theories or models from different perspectives being stitched together. Drawing on recent efforts to reify scientific theories using category theory, we propose adjunction as a formal mechanism whereby scientific theories interconnect across different perspectives. Finally, we argue that enriching perspectival realism with this foundational framework does not compromise the symmetry of scientific perspectives to which it adheres.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Yaghmaie, Aboutorab a_yaghmaie@sbu.ac.ir 0000-0002-2182-192X Ahmadi Kakavandi, Bijan b_ahmadi@sbu.ac.ir 0000-0002-4790-0626
Keywords:	perspectival realism; perspectival truth; internal approach; adjunction
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Dr Aboutorab Yaghmaie
Date Deposited:	31 Dec 2025 12:43
Last Modified:	31 Dec 2025 12:43
Item ID:	27672
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	29 December 2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/27672

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