Editors:
- 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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Front Matter
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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