O nietrafności Stathisa Psillosa krytyki ontycznego realizmu strukturalnego. Analiza argumentu z niemożliwości ontologicznej autonomii struktury

• Authors: Damian Luty

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On the inaptness of Stathis Psillos’ critique of Ontic Structural Realism. An analysis of the argument from the impossibility of ontological autonomy of structure

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The main goal of this article is to present some counterarguments to S. Psillos’ critique of a philosophical position known as Ontic Structural Realism (OSR). The main claim in OSR consists in a thesis that structures are ontologically fun­damental and autonomous. After providing a brief and general sketch of the OSR, I reconstruct Psillos’ argument aimed specifically at OSR. I call his argument “he argument from the impossibility of ontological autonomy of structure”. I claim, that this argument bites only if we agree with Psillos that the right and only way to understand structure in general is that borrowed form mathematical structural­ism. I dispute with this and some of his other claims. I provide three counterarguments to Psillos’ views. My own general claim is that Psillos’ reasoning is unsound, at least in the domain of philosophy of physics; in the end all the troubles which OSR faces don’t lead this position to self-refutation but generate ways in which it can develop further.

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
• Journal: Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 39-51

Contributors

author

Damian Luty

• Uniwersytet Adam Mickiewicza