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Structural Realism, again
Synthese 136 (1):127-133 (2003)
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The paper defends a view of structural realism similar to that of French and Ladyman, although it differs from theirs in an important respect: I do not take indistinguishabiity of particles in quantum mechanics to have the significance they think it has. It also differs from Cao's view of structural realism, criticized in my "Critical Notice: Cao's `The Conceptual Development of 20th Century Field Theories"Author's Profile
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Stating structural realism: mathematics‐first approaches to physics and metaphysics.David Wallace - 2022 - Philosophical Perspectives 36 (1):345-378.
Structural Realism.James Ladyman - 2012 - In Ed Zalta, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Everything you always wanted to know about structural realism but were afraid to ask.Roman Frigg & Ioannis Votsis - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (2):227-276.
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Physics and Leibniz’s Principles.Simon Saunders - 2003 - In Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections:289–307.
To what physics corresponds.Simon Saunders - 1993 - In S. French & H. Kamminga, Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: Essays in Honour of Heinz Post. Dordrecht: Reidel. pp. 295--325.
Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalsm.Simon Saunders - 2003 - In A. Ashtekar, Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics. Springer. pp. 151--173.
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