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Research Interests Philosophy of Science especially models and the semantic approach representation and structural realism Philosophy of Physics especially the metaphysical foundations of quantum mechanics History of Physics especially twentieth centurySteve French is Professor of the Philosophy of Science and his teaching and research interests are in the philosophy of science and the history and philosophy of modern physics He has recently published a book on structural realism The Structure of the World Metaphysics and Representation OUP 2014 and is currently working on a series of papers on monism dispositionalism and the relationship between science and metaphysics in general He is also planning to explore further the connections between the philosophy of art and the philosophy of science with regard to the nature of scientific and artistic objects At some point he is going to stun the world or not with a book on Husserl and the phenomenological approach to quantum mechanics. The Structure of the World epub free Steven is Co Editor in Chief with Michela Massimi of the University of Edinburgh of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science one of the most highly regarded journals in the field He is also Editor in Chief of the Palgrave Macmillan series New Directions in Philosophy of Science www. The Structure of the World epub pdf 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 of structures and making sense of that view is the central aim of the increasingly widespread position known as structural realism Drawing on contemporary work in metaphysics and philosophy of science as well as the forgotten history of structural realism itself French attempts to further ground and develop this position He argues that structural realism offers the best way of balancing our need to accommodate the results of modern science with our desire to arrive at an appropriately informed understanding of the world that science presents to us Covering not only the realism antirealism debate the nature of representation and the relationship between metaphysics and science The Structure of the World defends a form of eliminativism about objects that sets laws and symmetry principles atthe heart of ontology In place of a world of microscopic objects banging into one another and governed by the laws of physics it offers a world of laws and symmetries on which determinate physical properties are dependent In presenting this account French also tackles the distinction between mathematical and physical structures the nature of laws and causality in the context of modern physics and he concludes by exploring the extent to which structural realism can be extended into chemistry and biology The Structure of the World Metaphysics and RepresentationLikely I ve never worked harder to understand a book in a long time It was not that the concepts were not clearly laid out and argued but as a biologist I found most of the examples and arguments using quantum mechanics just a little beyond my grasp My doctorate in biomathematics was just enough to follow the arguments using group theory but it was a wade I kept with it because I wanted to get the last chapter where he lays out a hastily sketched a view of ontological structural realism for biology It was worth the struggle I can t think of another book I ve been excited by in a long time It s got my wheels turning on its relevancy for theoretical ecological Well worth reading in depth The Structure of the World Metaphysics and Representation