The Structure of the World: Metaphysics and Representation
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- UOA30-256
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199684847
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph, of 394 pages, draws on and extends research conducted over twenty years. It defends the fundamentality of physical structure, articulated in terms of a non-hierarchical relationship between laws and symmetry principles. In doing so it considers issues to do with the representation of structure, the relationship between mathematics and physics, the contrast with dispositionalism, the history of structuralism in the context of modern physics, and the realism debate. Although based on previously published papers, the book re-works and re-positions this material within a determinate and nuanced metaphysical framework.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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