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  1. The Structuralist Conception of Objects.Anjan Chakravartty - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (5):867-878.
    This paper explores the consequences of the two most prominent forms of contemporary structural realism for the notion of objecthood. Epistemic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, but nothing about the natures of unobservable relata whose relations define structures. Ontic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, and that there is nothing else to know—objects are useful heuristic posits, but are ultimately ontologically dispensable. I argue that structuralism does not succeed in ridding a (...)
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  • (1 other version)Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds?John Worrall - 1989 - Dialectica 43 (1-2):99-124.
    SummaryenThe main argument for scientific realism is that our present theories in science are so successful empirically that they can't have got that way by chance - instead they must somehow have latched onto the blueprint of the universe. The main argument against scientific realism is that there have been enormously successful theories which were once accepted but are now regarded as false. The central question addressed in this paper is whether there is some reasonable way to have the best (...)
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  • Substance, relations, and arguments about the nature of space-time.Paul Teller - 1991 - Philosophical Review 100 (3):363-397.
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  • Book Reviews-Social Empiricism.Stathis Psillos - 2002 - Philosophy of Science 69 (3):545.
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  • Space, Time and Spacetime. [REVIEW]David Malament - 1976 - Journal of Philosophy 73 (11):306-323.
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  • (2 other versions)Foundations of Space-Time Theories.Robert Weingard - 1986 - Philosophy of Science 53 (2):286-299.
    Foundations of Space-Time Theories, by Michael Friedman, falls naturally into two parts. In the first, he presents the general framework within which he will characterize and discuss space-time theories, and then he devotes a chapter each to Newtonian physics, special relativity, and general relativity. Although there is some rich philosophical discussion along the way, these chapters are, of necessity, somewhat technical expositions of the general framework in action. It is in the second part, consisting of two substantial chapters, one on (...)
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  • (1 other version)Space and Time in Particle and Field Physics.Dennis Dieks - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32 (2):217-241.
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  • A Structural Account of Mathematics.Charles Chihara - 2005 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 11 (1):79-83.
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  • A Structural Account of Mathematics.Charles S. Chihara - 2003 - Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press UK.
    Charles Chihara's new book develops and defends a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of striking features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers for centuries. The view is used to show that, in order to understand how mathematical systems are applied in science and everyday life, it is not necessary to assume that its theorems either presuppose mathematical objects or are even true. Chihara builds upon his previous work, in which he presented (...)
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  • Some pre-history of general relativity.Howard Stein - 1974 - In John Earman, Clark N. Glymour & John J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. University of Minnesota Press.
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  • Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics.Stewart Shapiro - 2002 - Philosophical Quarterly 52 (207):272-274.
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  • Mark Steiner. The applicability of mathematics as a philosophical problem.Michael Liston - 2000 - Philosophia Mathematica 8 (2):190-213.
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