Structural Distinctions: Entities, Structures, and Changes in Science-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Structural Distinctions: Entities, Structures, and Changes in Science

Published:2005-12 Issue:5 Volume:72 Page:1385-1396
ISSN:0031-8248
Container-title:Philosophy of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Philos. of Sci.

Author:

Cei Angelo

Abstract

I argue that the pessimistic meta-induction (PMI) seems to point an ontological priority of the relations over the objects of the scientific theories of the kind suggested by French and Ladyman (2003). My strategy will involve a critical examination of epistemic structural realism (ESR) and an historical case-study: the prediction of Zeeman's effect in Lorentz's theory of the electron.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History

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