Lyre, Holger (2007) Structural Realism and Abductive-Transcendental Arguments. UNSPECIFIED.

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The paper deals with an attempt to present an “abductive-transcendental” argument in favour of a particular version of structural realism (SR), dubbed Intermediate SR. In the first part of the paper the general structure of transcendental arguments is scrutinized with a close view on Kant’s original version and the prospect of their abductive variation. Then the role of symmetries in modern physics, especially symmetries without real instantiations and in particular gauge symmetries is discussed. This is combined with a presentation of SR as a promising current version of scientific realism. The discussion is supported by various arguments form gauge theories in modern physics. Intermediate SR, a realist position about all and only structurally derivable entities located between the extremes of Epistemic and Ontic SR turns out as the best fit to our current fundamental gauge physics and this finally leads to an abductive-transcendental reasoning concerning this position.

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Item Type:	Other
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Lyre, Holger
Additional Information:	In: M. Bitbol et al. (eds.): “Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics”. Springer, Berlin. In print.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Depositing User:	Holger Lyre
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2008
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	4072
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date:	2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4072

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