Taking models seriously and being a linguistic realist

Arroyo, Raoni Wohnrath; Silva, Gilson Olegario da

doi:10.5007/1808-1711.2022.e84309

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“…That is, if all one can do, from the scientific realist perspective, is to account for the internal truths given by ontological frameworks of science, there seems to be not much work for realists to do (cf. Arroyo and da Silva, 2022).…”

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Whence Deep Realism for Everettian Quantum Mechanics?

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Arenhart

2022

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Shallow' and 'deep' versions of scientific realism may be distinguished as follows: the shallow realist is satisfied with belief in the existence of the posits of our best scientific theories; by contrast, deep realists claim that realism can be legitimate only if such entities are described in metaphysical terms. We argue that this methodological discussion can be fruitfully applied in Everettian quantum mechanics, specifically on the debate concerning the existence of worlds and the recent dispute between Everettian actualism and quantum modal realism. After presenting what is involved in such dispute, we point to a dilemma for realists: either we don't have the available metaphysical tools to answer the deep realist's demands, and realism is not justified in this case, or such demands of metaphysical dressing are not mandatory for scientific realism, and deep versions of realism are not really required.

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