The Structure of the World: Metaphysics and Representation

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. Theory Change : From Fresnel's Equations To Group Theoretic Structure -- Mixing In The Metaphysics 1 : Underdetermination -- Mixing In The Metaphysics 2 : Humility -- Scenes From The Lost History Of Structuralism -- The Presentation Of Objects And The Representation Of Structure -- Osr And 'group Structural Realism' -- The Elimination Of Objects -- Mathematics, 'physical' Structure And The Nature Of Causation -- Modality, Structures, And Dispositions -- The Might Of Modal Structuralism -- Structure, Modality, And Unitary Inequivalence -- Shifting To Structures In Biology And Beyond Steven French. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [353]-383) And Index.