A structuralist perspective is one that sees the investigation of the structural features of a
domain of interest as the primary goal of enquiry. This vision has shaped research …

In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that
there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world …

Two related slogans for structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics are that “mathematics
is the general study of structures” and that, in pursuing such study, we can “abstract away …

[T] he structure of this physical world consistently moved farther and farther away from the
world of sense and lost its former anthropomorphic character…. Thus the physical world has …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional
people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic …

Tim Button explores the relationship between words and world; between semantics and
scepticism. A certain kind of philosopher—the external realist—worries that appearances …

In this paper we clarify how 'epistemic'(ESR) and 'ontic'structural realism (OSR) should be
understood and reply to some important criticisms of the latter. We shall begin with an …

Some authors have claimed that ante rem structuralism has problems with structures that
have indiscernible places. In response, I argue that there is no requirement that …

Abstract Using the Hilbert–Bernays account as a spring-board, we first define four ways in
which two objects can be discerned from one another, using the non-logical vocabulary of …