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DAVOODY BENI M.

STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, vol.114, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, AHCI, SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 114
  • Publication Date: 2025
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102081
  • Journal Name: STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, American History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index Islamicus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Philosopher's Index, Sociological abstracts, zbMATH
  • Keywords: Eliminativism, Ordinary objects, Predictive processing, Structural realism
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Eliminative structural realism is in line with mereological nihilism. This contrasts with reconciliatory, noneliminativist versions of structural realism, such as rainforest realism, which aim to accommodate quotidian ontology. Recently, the ordinary object ontology of rainforest realism has been defended by drawing on cognitive sciences. This paper critically examines philosophical arguments and scientific evidence, particularly from predictive processing, to argue that these sources do not support the ontology of ordinary objects but instead favour an organism-oriented form of eliminativist structural realism.