The Structure Of Realism
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Structural Realism
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Author : Elaine Landry
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Structural Realism written by Elaine Landry and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with Science categories.
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.
International Relations And Scientific Progress
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Author : Patrick James
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2002
International Relations And Scientific Progress written by Patrick James and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.
International Relations and Scientific Progress contends that a theory focusing on the structure of the international system explains a wider and more interesting range of events in world politics than other theories. Such theorizing appears to be out of favor as the result of the apparent failure by structural realism, the most prominent system-level theory over the last two decades, on any number of fronts--most notably an inability to anticipate the ending of the Cold War and its aftermath. This new book is put forward as the most comprehensive and innovative theoretical work on paradigms in international relations since the publication of Theory of International Politics, which created structural realism, more than two decades ago. With appropriate revisions, however, structural realist theory can compete effectively and reclaim its primacy. The first part of International Relations and Scientific Progress assesses the meaning of progress in the discipline of international relations, a process that culminates in the creation of a new concept, the scientific research enterprise. The second part reviews structural realism within that context and identifies a lack of connection between theory and research that links power-based indicators to international conflict, crisis, and war. This part of the book makes the case for an elaboration of structural realism by showing that a system-level theory based on structure has great unrealized explanatory potential. By comparison, the current overwhelmingly research oriented agenda on state dyads imposes severe limitations on understanding that are not currently appreciated. Part Three sums up the work and explores new directions, most notablyas related to empirical testing of an elaborated version of structural realism that focuses on both continuity and change in the international system.
Cognitive Structural Realism
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Author : Majid Davoody Beni
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-29
Cognitive Structural Realism written by Majid Davoody Beni and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-29 with Science categories.
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.
The Realism Reader
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Author : Colin Elman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-12
The Realism Reader written by Colin Elman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-12 with Political Science categories.
The Realism Reader provides broad coverage of a centrally important tradition in the study of foreign policy and international politics. After some years in the doldrums, political realism is again in contention as a leading tradition in the international relations sub-field. Divided into three main sections, the book covers seven different and distinctive approaches within the realist tradition: classical realism, balance of power theory, neorealism, defensive structural realism, offensive structural realism, rise and fall realism, and neoclassical realism. The middle section of the volume covers realism’s engagement with critiques levelled by liberalism, institutionalism, and constructivism and the English School. The final section of the book provides materials on realism’s engagement with some contemporary issues in international politics, with collections on United States (U.S.) hegemony, European cooperation, and whether future threats will arise from non-state actors or the rise of competing great powers. The book offers a logically coherent and manageable framework for organizing the realist canon, and provides exemplary literature in each of the traditions and dialogues which are included in the volume. Offering substantial commentary and analysis and including enhanced pedagogy to facilitate student learning, The Realism Reader will provide a 'one-stop-shop' for undergraduates and masters students taking a course in contemporary international relations theory, with a particular focus on realism.
Theory Change And Structural Realism
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Author : Meier Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG
Release Date : 2015-06-03
Theory Change And Structural Realism written by Meier Thomas and has been published by Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-03 with categories.
Structural realism asserts that our knowledge of the world can best be provided by knowledge of structures, which aim to represent the world adequately, this view is also called the epistemic form of structural realism. In a different way, ontic structural realism states that the fundamental ontological entities are in fact not individuals but structures. Objects, as we speak usually of them, just occupy places in a structure. In this book, the author discusses different aspects of structural realism. He provides a historical discussion of its origins, he discusses and shows the applicability of this view to linguistics, and he proposes a genuine and new form of a neutralist position in the debate on scientific and structural realism. Neutralism, as a more modest view, solves problems of both scientific realism and antirealism, by making less ontological commitments. It is therefore a promising and ontologically more moderate view in the debate on scientific realism.
The Structure Of Realism
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Author : Kay Engler
language : en
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Release Date : 1977
The Structure Of Realism written by Kay Engler and has been published by Unc Department of Romance Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Literary Criticism categories.
Volume 184 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
The Logic Of Anarchy
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Author : Barry Buzan
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1993
The Logic Of Anarchy written by Barry Buzan and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
-- James Der Derian, University of Massachusetts
Knowing The Structure Of Nature
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Author : S. Psillos
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Knowing The Structure Of Nature written by S. Psillos and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Science categories.
In this sequel to the highly acclaimed Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth , Psillos discusses recent developments in scientific realism and explores realist theses and commitments. He examines the structuralist turn in the philosophy of science and offers a framework within which inference to the best explanation can be defended.
The Structure Of The World
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Author : Steven French
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Structure Of The World written by Steven French and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Philosophy categories.
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.
New Approaches To Scientific Realism
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Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-08-24
New Approaches To Scientific Realism written by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-24 with Philosophy categories.
Scientific realism is at the core of the contemporary philosophical debate on science. This book analyzes new versions of scientific realism. It makes explicit the advantages of scientific realism over alternatives and antagonists, contributes to deciding which of the new approaches better meets the descriptive and the prescriptive criteria, and expands the philosophico-methodological field to take in new topics and disciplines.