Grounding ontic structuralism

Bianchi, Silvia De; Giannotti, Joaquim

doi:10.1007/s11229-020-03001-7

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“…6 We claim that ground can perform the same beneficial service for scientific views. For example, Bianchi and Giannotti (2021) contend that a ground-theoretic interpretation gives us an insightful understanding of priority claims at play in ontic structural realism, a theory motivated mainly by contemporary physics. And A.…”

Section: Systematizing Fundamentality and Prioritymentioning

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Scientific explanation as a guide to ground

Kortabarria,

Giannotti

2024

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Ground is all the rage in contemporary metaphysics. But what is its nature? Some metaphysicians defend what we could call, following Skiles and Trogdon (Philos Stud 178(12):4083-4098, 2021), the inheritance view: it is because constitutive forms of metaphysical explanation are such-and-such that we should believe that ground is so-and-so. However, many putative instances of inheritance are not primarily motivated by scientific considerations. This limitation is harmless if one thinks that ground and science are best kept apart. Contrary to this view, we believe that ground is a highly serviceable tool for investigating metaphysical areas of science. In this paper, we defend a naturalistic version of the inheritance view which takes constitutive scientific explanation as a better guide to ground. After illustrating the approach and its merits, we discuss some implications of the emerging scientific conception for the theory of ground at large.

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Scientific explanation as a guide to ground

Kortabarria,

Giannotti

2024

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“…As Bianchi and Gianotti [11] emphasize, however, structuralists usually take structures to be the kind of entities metaphysically characterized extensionally: extrinsic properties, relations, symmetry groups, etc. To put it in another way, there is still metaphysical underdetermination concerning how should we understand 'structures' properly in metaphysical terms [42].…”

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Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics

Aerts

Arenhart

Ronde³

et al. 2023

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This chapter argues that the general philosophy of science should learn metaphilosophical lessons from the case of metaphysical underdetermination, as it occurs in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Section 2 presents the traditional discussion of metaphysical underdetermination regarding the individuality and non-individuality of quantum particles. Section 3 discusses three reactions to it found in the literature: eliminativism about individuality; conservatism about individuality; eliminativism about objects. Section 4 wraps it all up with metametaphysical considerations regarding the epistemology of metaphysics of science.

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Relationism and the Problem of Order

Paoletti

2022

Acta Anal

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Grounding ontic structuralism

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Scientific explanation as a guide to ground

Scientific explanation as a guide to ground

Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics

Relationism and the Problem of Order

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