The structure of the world: metaphysics and representation/ by Steven French
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 394pISBN: 9780199684847; 0199684847Subject(s): Structuralism | Realism | SciencesDDC classification: 501 Summary: Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects in the world. He draws on metaphysics and philosophy of science to argue for structural realism - the position that we live in a world of structures - and defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology.--
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Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects in the world. He draws on metaphysics and philosophy of science to argue for structural realism - the position that we live in a world of structures - and defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles at the heart of ontology.--
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