Arroyo, Raoni Wohnrath and Arenhart, Jonas R. B. and Krause, Décio (2023) The elimination of metaphysics through the epistemological analysis: lessons (un)learned from metaphysical underdetermination. [Preprint]
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This chapter argues that the general philosophy of science should learn metaphilosophical lessons from the case of metaphysical underdetermination, as it occurs in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Section presents the traditional discussion of metaphysical underdetermination regarding the individuality and non-individuality of quantum particles. Section discusses three reactions to it found in the literature: eliminativism about individuality; conservatism about individuality; eliminativism about objects. Section wraps it all up with metametaphysical considerations regarding the epistemology of metaphysics of science.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in: Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics. Aerts, D. & Arenhart, J. R. B. & de Ronde, C. & Sergioli, G. (eds.) World Scientific, 2023. | ||||||||||||
| Keywords: | Individuality; Metaphysical underdetermination; Metaphysics of quantum mechanics; Non-individuals; Structuralism. | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Raoni Arroyo | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2023 15:55 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 15:55 | ||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 22472 | ||||||||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1... | ||||||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1142/13602 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | October 2023 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22472 |
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