Causation in a Structural World

El realismo estructural cognitivo en filosofía de la ciencia: reconstrucción y presentación crítica

“…muestra comparativamente algunos de los elementos más importantes de las dos versiones de REC desarrolladas aquí. Realismo estructural óntico (Ladyman et al 2007) Semi-realismo (French 2014) Empirismo estructural (Bueno 1999) Análisis pragmático Modeloteorética, con estructuras parciales y funciones de interpretación usando isomorfismos parciales.…”

Redundant epistemic symmetries

“…Dasgupta's reducing in [10] symmetry-to-reality based reasoning to an Ockhamist norm to excise undetectable structure resolves the puzzle regarding why one should engage in symmetry-to-reality based reasoning, there is a sense in which this approach misses the mark-for the puzzle of why physicists' notions of symmetries (which are not stated in epistemic terms) should be involved in symmetry-to-reality based reasoning still remains. 19 Our issue with the epistemic approach to symmetries, then, is that it appears to define itself out of a problem. The substantive question to be addressed is: "Why are symmetries a guide to reality?"…”

Experimental criteria for accessing reality: Perrin’s experimental demonstration of atoms and molecules

“…First, there is the contrast between globalists and localists. Globalists attempt to answer the central questions of the debate by arguing for conclusions regarding our best theories in general, the claims they make, and the entities they posit (Worrall, 1989;Psillos, 1999Psillos, , 2005Ladyman and Ross, 2007;Harker, 2013;Peters, 2014). In contrast, localists attempt to answer such questions on a case-by-case basis by examining the first-order evidence for particular theories, claims, and entities (Achinstein, 2002;Magnus and Callender, 2004;Saatsi, 2010Saatsi, , 2017Fitzpatrick, 2013;Park, 2016;Asay, 2019;Chen and Hricko, 2021).…”