Representation or Construction?

The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 10:115-123 (2001)
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In this essay, I argue that the basic entities in the causally organized hierarchy of entities that quantum field theory describes are not particles but fields. Then I move to discuss, from the perspective of a structural realist, in what sense and to what degree this theoretical construction of fields can be taken as an objective representation of physical reality.

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Tian Yu Cao
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