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On Optimism and Opportunism in Applied Mathematics (Mark Wilson Meets John von Neumann on Mathematical Ontology)
Applied mathematics axiomatic method
2008/4/22
Applied mathematics often operates by way of shakily rationalized expedients that can neither be understood in a deductive-nomological nor in an anti-realist setting. Rather do these complexities, so ...
Properties and Dispositions: some Metaphysical Remarks on Quantum Ontology
Dispositional Property Categorical Property GRW Many-Worlds
2008/4/22
After some suggestions about how to clarify the confused metaphysical distinctions between dispositional and non-dispositional or categorical properties, I review some of the main interpretations of Q...
The domains of quantum theory and general relativity overlap in situations where quantum mechanical effects cannot be ignored. In order to deal with this overlap of theoretical domains, there has been...
This essay explores the possibility of constructing a structural realist interpretation of spacetime theories that can resolve the ontological debate among substantivalists and relationists. Drawing o...
The irrelevance of the presentist/eternalist debate for the ontology of Minkowski spacetime
Presentism eternalism Minkowski spacetime Ontology
2008/4/21
In this paper I argue that the debate between the so-called “presentists” – according to whom only the present is real – and the “eternalists”, according to whom past present and future are equally re...
The Problem of Ontology for Spontaneous Collapse Theories
spontaneous localization theories dynamical reduction theories
2008/4/21
The question of how to interpret spontaneous collapse theories of quantum mechanics is an open one. One issue involves what link one should use to go from wave function talk to talk of ordinary macros...
On the Ontology of Spacetime in a Frame of Reference
spacetime ontology frame of reference reference frame
2008/4/15
The spacetime ontology is considered in General Relativity (GR) in view of the choice of a frame of reference (FR). Various approaches to a description of the FR, such as coordinate systems, monads an...
MATHEMATICAL MODELS IN SCIENCE: A DEBATE ABOUT ONTOLOGY
Mathematical realism Indispensability argument
2008/4/15
Some philosophers of mathematics argue that the role of mathematical models in science is merely representational: when scientists use mathematical models they only believe that they are adequate repr...
Imaginary-Constitutives. The Ontology of Scientific Models.
models semantic view models-as-mediators analogies
2008/4/14
Hitherto, there have been two approaches towards models in the philosophy of science. One could be called “formalistic” and the other one “methodological”. The first coincides with the so-called seman...
Idealist Philosophy: What is Real ?Conscious Experience Seen as Basic to All Ontology. An Overviewˇ
Idealist ontology philosophy of science cognition
2008/4/14
The idealist attitude followed in this paper is based on the assumption that only conscious experience
in the Now is real. Conscious experience in the Now is supposed to be known directly or intuitiv...
Generating Ontology: From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Field Theory
quantum field theory particle physics
2008/4/14
Philosophical interpretations of theories generally presuppose that a theory can be presented as a consistent mathematical formulation that is interpreted through models. Algebraic quantum field theor...
It is often assumed that chemistry was a typical positivistic science as long as chemists used atomic and molecular models as mere fictions and denied any concern with their real existence. Even when ...
Field theories have been central to physics over the last 150 years, and there are several theories in contemporary physics in which physical fields play key causal and explanatory roles. This paper p...
Henry Laycock, Words without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006, xvi + 202 pp. [ISBN 0-19-928171-8)]
Clarendon Press Logic
2008/4/3
The title of this book is a play on W. V. Quine’s Word and Object, a major publication from 1960 in the philosophy of language. It is a critical study of the semantics of non-count nouns (NCNs) as dis...