Structural Realism Structure, Object, and Causality
Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general c
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THE WESTERN ONTARIO SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A SERIES OF BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE, HISTORY OF SCIENCE, HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE, GAME AND DECISION THEORY
Managing Editor WILLIAM DEMOPOULOS
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California/Irvine Assistant Editors DAVID DEVIDI
Philosophy of Mathematics, University of Waterloo ROBERT DISALLE
Philosophy of Physics and History and Philosophy of Science, University of Western Ontario WAYNE MYRVOLD
Foundations of Physics, University of Western Ontario Editorial Board University of Western Ontario Hebrew University of Jerusalem JEFFREY BUB, University of Maryland PETER CLARK, St. Andrews University JACK COPELAND, University of Canterbury, New Zealand JANET FOLINA, Macalester College MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, Stanford University CHRISTOPHER A. FUCHS, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario MICHAEL HALLETT, McGill University WILLIAM HARPER, University of Western Ontario CLIFFORD A. HOOKER, University of Newcastle, Australia AUSONIO MARRAS, University of Western Ontario JÜRGEN MITTELSTRASS, Universität Konstanz THOMAS UEBEL, University of Manchester JOHN L. BELL,
YEMINA BEN-MENAHEM,
VOLUME 77
Elaine M. Landry · Dean P. Rickles Editors
Structural Realism Structure, Object, and Causality
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Editors Elaine M. Landry University of California Davis California USA [email protected]
Dr. Dean P. Rickles University of Sydney Unit for History & Philosophy of Science Sydney New South Wales F07 Carslaw Bldg. Australia [email protected]
ISSN 1566-659X ISBN 978-94-007-2578-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2579-9 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2579-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011943742 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
It still seems reasonable to assume that scientific realism, in some form or other, is the majority position amongst both practicing scientists and philosophers of science. However, as Jarrett Leplin quipped some years ago, realism is “[l]ike the Equal Rights Movement . . . a majority position whose advocates are so divided as to appear a minority” (Scientific Realism, University of California Press, 1985, p. 1). Within the broader church of scientific realism, structural realism too has splintered into many diverse denominations, often underpinned by quite distinct motivations and argued for using qu
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