The Structure of the World: Metaphysics and Representation

New York: Oxford University Press (2014)
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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

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Q175.F827 2014

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