Talk by Karim Thébault at MCMP (Wed. 9th Jan.)

[Karim Thebault]

Speaker: Karim Thébault (Munich)

Title: Quantisation as a guide to ontic structure

Wednesday January 9th
Ludwigstr.31 /II room 225
Time: 6 to 8 pm

Abstract:
The ontic structural realist stance is motivated by a desire to do
philosophical justice to the success of science, whilst withstanding
the metaphysical undermining generated by the various species of
ontological underdetermination. We are, however, as yet in want of
general principles to provide a scaffold for the explicit construction
of structural ontologies. Here we will attempt to bridge this gap by
utilising the formal procedure of quantisation as a guide to ontic
structure of modern physical theory. The example of non-relativistic
particle mechanics will be considered and, for that case, it will be
argued that, modulo certain mathematical ambiguities, a consistent
candidate structural ontology can be established.

_______________________________________________
philphysmunich mailing list
philphysmunich at lists.lrz.de
https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/philphysmunich