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Features contributions from the foremost authorities on structural realism
Tackles the difficult problem of defining causation, modality, and laws in structural realism
Includes the latest research on the integration of mathematical structuralism and structural realism
Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 77)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Frameworks for Structural Realism
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Front Matter
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Structural Realism and the Nature of Objects and Relations
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Front Matter
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Structural Realism And The Nature Of Objects And Relations
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Modality and Causality in Structural Realism
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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University of California, Davis, USA
Elaine Landry
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Unit for History & Philosophy of, Science, University of Sidney, Sydney, Australia
Dean Rickles
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structural Realism
Book Subtitle: Structure, Object, and Causality
Editors: Elaine Landry, Dean Rickles
Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2579-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2578-2Published: 05 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9855-7Published: 24 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2579-9Published: 05 January 2012
Series ISSN: 1566-659X
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 212
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Metaphysics, Epistemology