Ontic Structural Realism and Modality

Berenstain, Nora; Ladyman, James

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2579-9_8

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“…This might be seen to cast doubt upon the extent to which the principles of naturalism are being respected within the approach (see (Berenstain and Ladyman 2012) for further discussion of this and related points).…”

Section: Interpretation Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantization as a Guide to Ontic Structure

Thébault

2016

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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The ontic structural realist stance is motivated by a desire to do philosophical justice to the success of science, whilst withstanding the metaphysical undermining generated by the various species of ontological underdetermination. We are, however, as yet in want of general principles to provide a scaffold for the explicit construction of structural ontologies. Here we will attempt to bridge this gap by utilising the formal procedure of quantization as a guide to ontic structure of modern physical theory. The example of non-relativistic particle mechanics will be considered and, for that case, it will be shown that a viable candidate for an OSR framework can be constituted in terms of the combination of a state space, with Poisson bracket structure, and a set of observables, with Lie algebra structure.

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Section: Interpretation Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantization as a Guide to Ontic Structure

Thébault

2016

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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“…The most common approach in the literature conceptualizes laws in terms of causal structure, and in accordance with the asymmetry of the causal relation, lawhood is then understood in a temporally directed way, such that laws 'generate or produce' later states from an initial state [69]. For example, ref [75] describes modal structure in terms of the existence of 'genuine causal powers,' and ref [76] holds that these powers are typically supposed to flow 'along asymmetrical gradients.' Similarly, ref [77] gives an account of modal structural realism in terms of causal structure, drawing on the well-established contrast between causal and categorical properties.…”

Section: Modal Structurementioning

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Laws of Nature as Constraints

Adlam

2021

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“…realism requires any notion of natural necessity, Berenstain and Ladyman (2012) argue that the arguments for scientific realism are undercut without it. This metaphysical issue is taken as the fundamental one for the realism debate by van Fraassen, and he is right: metaphysics in general, and modal metaphysics in particular, are the crux of scientific realism.…”

Section: Scientific Realism Againmentioning

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Scientific Realism Again

Ladyman¹

2018

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The present paper concerns how scientific realism is formulated and defended. It is argued that van Fraassen is fundamentally right that scientific realism requires metaphysics in general, and modality in particular. This is because of several relationships that raise problems for the ontology of scientific realism, namely those between: scientific realism and common sense realism; past and current theories; the sciences of different scales; and the ontologies of the special sciences and fundamental physics. These problems are related. It is argued that ontic structural realism, in the form of the real-patterns account of ontology, offers a unified solution to them all (or at least that it is required to do so, if it is to make good on the promise of naturalised metaphysics).

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Ontic Structural Realism and Modality

Cited by 44 publications

References 20 publications

Quantization as a Guide to Ontic Structure

Quantization as a Guide to Ontic Structure

Laws of Nature as Constraints

Scientific Realism Again

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