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The Structure of the World - Metaphysics and Representation (Paperback)
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The Structure of the World - Metaphysics and Representation (Paperback)
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In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and
defends the bold claim that there are no objects. At the most
fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world of
structures and making sense of that view is the central aim of the
increasingly widespread position known as structural realism.
Drawing on contemporary work in metaphysics and philosophy of
science, as well as the 'forgotten' history of structural realism
itself, French attempts to further ground and develop this
position. He argues that structural realism offers the best way of
balancing our need to accommodate the results of modern science
with our desire to arrive at an appropriately informed
understanding of the world that science presents to us. Covering
not only the realism-antirealism debate, the nature of
representation, and the relationship between metaphysics and
science, The Structure of the World defends a form of eliminativism
about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart
of ontology. In place of a world of microscopic objects banging
into one another and governed by the laws of physics, it offers a
world of laws and symmetries, on which determinate physical
properties are dependent. In presenting this account, French also
tackles the distinction between mathematical and physical
structures, the nature of laws, and causality in the context of
modern physics, and he concludes by exploring the extent to which
structural realism can be extended into chemistry and biology.
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