Whence ontological structural realism?

Juha Saatsi

pp. 255-265

in: Mauricio Surez, Mauro Dorato, Miklós Rédei (eds), Epsa epistemology and methodology of science, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

I scrutinize (a) the alleged dichotomy between epistemic and ontological forms of structural realism, and (b) the considerations used to motivate the ontic variety over the epistemic. I argue that there's nothing in the traditional realism debate that calls for ontological structural realism.