Structural Realism
Structural Realism

Author: Elaine Landry

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9400725787

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Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on the idea that a central role is to be played by relational aspects over object-based aspects of ontology. What becomes of causality in a world without fundamental objects? In this book, the foremost authorities on structural realism attempt to answer this and related questions: ‘what is structure?’ and ‘what is an object?’ Also featured are the most recent advances in structural realism, including the intersection of mathematical structuralism and structural realism, and the latest treatments of laws and modality in the context of structural realism. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of physics, metaphysicians, and those interested in foundational aspects of science.

Perspectives on Structural Realism
Perspectives on Structural Realism

Author: A. Hanami

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2003-12-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781349388042

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Realism remains a predominant and most debated theoretical approach in International Relations research. Whether considered a scientific and accurate reflection of world politics or as reactionary and a distortion of realities and possibilities, both realism and its structural variant continue to be a source of fruitful research-whether within the program or in its rejection.The Realism approach itself is not uniform whether in relation to its implications or methodologies. Here leading scholars provide important perspectives on the insights and directions of Realist research in some of its most interesting variants. From rational choice to case studies, from theory to practice, the contributors explore both classic tenets of Realism as the balance of power and such apparent inconsistencies as foolish policies.

Cognitive Structural Realism
Cognitive Structural Realism

Author: Majid Davoody Beni

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 3030051145

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In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation. The work combines two distinguished developments of the Semantic View of Theories, namely Structural Realism (SR), a flourishing theory from contemporary philosophy of science, and Ronald Giere and colleagues’ Cognitive Models of Science approach (CMSA). Readers will see how replacing the model-theoretic structures that are at issue in SR with connectionist networks and activations patterns (which are the formal tools of computational neuroscience) helps us to deal with the problem of representation. The author suggests that cognitive structures are not only the precise formal tools for regimenting the structure of scientific theories but also the tools that the biological brain uses to capture the essential features (i.e., structures) of its environment. Therefore, replacing model-theoretic structures with cognitive structures allows us to account for the theories-reality relationship on the basis of the most reliable theories of neurology. This is how a new form of SR, called Cognitive Structural Realism (CSR) is introduced through this book, which articulates and defends CSR, and shows how two diverging branches of SVT can be reconciled. This ground-breaking work will particularly appeal to people who work in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences.

Structural Realism
Structural Realism

Author: Elaine Landry

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9400725795

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Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on the idea that a central role is to be played by relational aspects over object-based aspects of ontology. What becomes of causality in a world without fundamental objects? In this book, the foremost authorities on structural realism attempt to answer this and related questions: ‘what is structure?’ and ‘what is an object?’ Also featured are the most recent advances in structural realism, including the intersection of mathematical structuralism and structural realism, and the latest treatments of laws and modality in the context of structural realism. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of physics, metaphysicians, and those interested in foundational aspects of science.

Realism
Realism

Author: Carol Edwards

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Realism: A Study in Human Anatomy pushes the level of graphical detail available in human anatomy to unprecedented heights. The information presented in this book will be an important step on the way to understanding how the human body is organized and how it functions. Thousands of computer objects, representing the bones and muscles of the human body, were constructed in three dimensions. Image maps with very high resolution were painted onto the objects to give them very realistic color rendition and textures. The resulting anatomical objects within this book are astounding in their appearance and will be extremely useful for teaching and research. This book truly allows the reader to marvel at the beauty of the construction of the human body. MARKET A student of anatomy, anyone working in a field where you need to know detailed anatomy or any artist who strives to represent the human body with accuracy, be it in 3D or 2D.

Perspectives on Structural Realism
Perspectives on Structural Realism

Author: A. Hanami

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-11-28

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1403981701

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Realism remains a predominant and most debated theoretical approach in International Relations research. Whether considered a scientific and accurate reflection of world politics or as reactionary and a distortion of realities and possibilities, both realism and its structural variant continue to be a source of fruitful research-whether within the program or in its rejection.The Realism approach itself is not uniform whether in relation to its implications or methodologies. Here leading scholars provide important perspectives on the insights and directions of Realist research in some of its most interesting variants. From rational choice to case studies, from theory to practice, the contributors explore both classic tenets of Realism as the balance of power and such apparent inconsistencies as foolish policies.

Structural realism and eternalism can solve the mind-brain problem
Structural realism and eternalism can solve the mind-brain problem

Author: Hiro Inuki

Publisher: Hiro Inuki

Published: 2023-10-05

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13:

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This is a free paper. There are many theories concerning the mind-brain(mind-body) problem, but these theories have serious flaws because they view the problem as a relation between "mind" and "matter". This paper redefines the problem as a relation between "mind" and "reality" and attempts to solve the problem by combining structural realism and the eternalism of the philosophy of time.

The Logic of Anarchy
The Logic of Anarchy

Author: Barry Buzan

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780231080415

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-- James Der Derian, University of Massachusetts

Realism
Realism

Author: Benjamin Frankel

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780714646084

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The original essays collected in this book offer a comprehensive evaluation of realism as a theory of international relations.

From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics
From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics

Author: Tian Yu Cao

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107411395

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The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.