Structural realism and Davidson |
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Authors: | Jack Ritchie |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland |
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Abstract: | Structural realism is an attempt to balance the competing demands of the No Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction. In this paper I trace the development of the structuralist idea through the work of one of its leading advocates, John Worrall. I suggest that properly thought through what the structuralist is offering or should be offering is not an account of how to divide up a theory into two parts—structure and ontology—but (perhaps surprisingly) a certain kind of theory of meaning—semantic holism. I explain how a version of structural realism can be developed using Davidson’s theory of meaning and some advantages this has over the Ramsey-sentence version of structuralism. |
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Keywords: | Realism Semantic holism Davidson Worrall |
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