Structure of the World

Name: Structure of the World
Brand: Oxford University Press (UK)
Price: 165.49 EUR

Metaphysics and Representation

(0 Bewertungen)15

Buch (gebunden)

eBook pdf33,99 €

165,49 €inkl. Mwst.

Zustellung: Mi, 15.10. - Mo, 20.10.

Versand in 3 Wochen

Versandkostenfrei

Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects in the world. He draws on metaphysics and philosophy of science to argue for structural realism the position that we live in a world of structures and defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Theory Change: From Fresnel's Equations to Group Theoretic Structure

2: Mixing in the Metaphysics 1--Underdermination

3: Mixing in the Metaphysics 2--Humility

4: Scenes from the Lost History of Structuralism

5: The Presentation of Objects and the Representation of Structure

6: OSR and 'Group Structural Realism'

7: The Elimination of Objects

8: Mathematics, 'Physical' Structure and the Nature of Causation

9: Modality, Structures, and Dispositions

10: The Might of Modal Structuralism

11: Structure, Modality, and Unitary Inequivalence

12: Shifting to Structures in Biology and Beyond

Bibliography

Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

16. März 2014

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

414

Autor/Autorin

Steven French

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press (UK)

Produktart

gebunden

Gewicht

771 g

Größe (L/B/H)

247/160/29 mm

ISBN

9780199684847

Entdecken Sie mehr

Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie

Physik

Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie

Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie

Physik

Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie

Portrait

Steven French

Steven French taught in Brazil and the USA before moving to Leeds in 1993. He is Professor of the Philosophy of Science and the author or editor of six books and over ninety papers. His principal areas of research are the metaphysical foundations of quantum physics, the nature of theories, and structural realism. He is a former President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and Co-Editor in Chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Bewertungen

0 Bewertungen

Es wurden noch keine Bewertungen abgegeben. Schreiben Sie die erste Bewertung zu "Structure of the World" und helfen Sie damit anderen bei der Kaufentscheidung.