Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique

Damian Luty

doi:10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.18

Published: 2024-12-31

Vol. 60 No. 2 (2024)

Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique

Damian Luty

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

Section: Papers

https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.18

Abstract

In this paper I address the problem of justifying Steven French’s eliminative ontic structural realism by the metaphysical underdetermination argument. My main goal is to show that there are underlying strategies in the argument and that they are questionable. I provide arguments for this claim and conclude that while the metaphysical thesis of eliminative ontic structural realism is dismissible, French’s views can be characterized without it – at a very high price, however.

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Received: 23/04/2024. Reviewed: 7/10/2024. Accepted: 15/11/2024.

Keywords:

eliminative ontic structural realism, metaphysics, quantum mechanics

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Luty, D. (2024). Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 60(2), 199–229. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.18

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Damian Luty

damian.luty@ue.poznan.pl
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Poznań University of Economics and Business - Poland

Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique

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