Remodelling Structural Realism: Quantum Physics and the Metaphysics of Structure

By Steven French, James Ladyman. Synthese, 2003

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, History and Philosophy of Science

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Michael Esfeld
2. Stathis Psillos
3. O. Pooley

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Michael Esfeld
2. Stathis Psillos
3. O. Pooley

Citations in the corpus

• The Structure, the Whole Structure, and Nothing but the Structure? (2006, background): “As Hawthorne (2001) explains it, causal structuralism is the view that all there is to properties is their causal profile, that is, the causal powers they confer on their possessors.”
• Points, particles, and structural realism (2005, methodology): “If the meta-induction is a problem about lack of continuity of reference then Ramsifying a theory does not address the problem at all. ( French and Ladyman, 2003, 33 )”
• Quantum entanglement and a metaphysics of relations (2004, background): “The structural realism of French and Ladyman thus seems to be a radical metaphysics of relations.18 It rejects not only the claim that (1) things have to be something in themselves, that is, must have intrinsic properties over and above the relations in which they stand, but also the claim that (2) ”