CAUSATION AND STRUCTURAL REALISM

• Authors: Schmidt Martin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

M. Esfeld has recently argued that ontic structural realism may succeed only if it is based on causal structures. In order to meet this requirement, he offers a combination of dispositional/causal relations with moderate form ontic structural realism. This paper, however, demonstrates that moderate position, in relation to causation, faces a dilemma whose resolution leads to a monistic ontology that creates a rather hostile environment for structural metaphysics.

Keywords

EN

CAUSATION; ESFELD M.; SCIENTIFIC REALISM; STRUCTURAL REALISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 508-521
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schmidt Martin

• Martin Schmidt, Katedra filozofie, FHV, Univerzita Mateja Bela, Tajovskeho 40, 974 01 Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA094415