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DAVOODY BENI M.

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

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 114
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102081
  • Dergi Adı: STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: 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
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Eliminativism, Ordinary objects, Predictive processing, Structural realism
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.