French, SRD (2017) (Structural) Realism and its Representational Vehicles. Synthese, 194 (9). pp. 3311-3326. ISSN 0039-7857
Abstract
In this essay I shall focus on the adoption of the Semantic Approach by structural realists, including myself, who have done so on the grounds that it wears its structuralist sympathies on its sleeve (Ladyman Stud Hist Philos Sci 29:409–424, 1998). Despite this, the SA has been identified as standing in tension with the ontological commitments of the so-called ’ontic’ form of this view and so I shall explore that tension before discussing the usefulness of the SA in framing scientific representation and concluding with a discussion of the implications of the ontological status of theories and models themselves.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Semantic approach; Structural realism; Representation; Models; Eliminativism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2018 13:55 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2018 14:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11229-015-0879-x |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:134058 |