Titlebook: Knowing the Structure of Nature; Essays on Realism an Stathis Psillos Book 2009 Stathis Psillos 2009 metaphysics.philosophy of science.scie

乳白光

vitreous-humor

sinoatrial-node

Structure, the , Structure and Nothing , the Structure?S) is still quite an amorphous, though suggestive, position. The slogan is: ‘all that there ., is structure’ (da Costa and French 2003, 189). But then there are different claims of varying strengths. Here are some of them.

incarcerate

anthesis

Scientific Realism and Metaphysics see it as a view about the world. Some philosophers, most typically from Australia, think that the second way is . correct way. Scientific realism, they argue, is a metaphysical thesis: it asserts the reality of some types of entity, most typically unobservable entities. I agree that scientific rea

无政府主义者

Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism argument is Putnam’s (1975, 73): realism ‘is the only philosophy of science that does not make the success of science a miracle’. Hence, the code name ‘no-miracles’ argument (henceforth, NMA). The NMA has quite a history and a variety of formulations. I have documented all this in my work (Psillos

boisterous

Against Neo-Instrumentalismmay be a mistake to try to identify ‘a crucial difference’ between instrumentalism and realism when it comes to the epistemic attitudes they recommend towards theories or theoretical assertions. There is, he says, at most ‘a local difference in the specific theories each is willing to believe on the

Externalize

Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin(e.g., observation or inference) but the processes Azzouni recommends should meet his ‘tracking requirement’: they should be ‘sensitive to the objects . we claim to be establishing (the truths we are committed to)’ (Azzouni 2004, 371–2). Azzouni (2004; 1997) claims that the tracking requirement is m

刺耳

Detoxification

Is Structural Realism Possible? because it asserts the existence of a mind-independent world, and it is . because what is knowable of the world is said to be its structure only. As a slogan, the thesis is that knowledge can reach only up to the structural features of the world. This chapter unravels and criticises the metaphysica