ONTIC STRUCTRAL REALISM AND QUANTUM MECHANICS

摘要

Radical-Ontic Structural Realism and Moderate-Ontic Structural Realism are usually distinguished by the specific way of how they address the question of the primacy between objects and relations. However, I will argue that the difference between Radical-Ontic Structural Realism and Moderate-Ontic Structural Realism runs deeper; it rests on the different programmatic assessments of the relationship between science and metaphysics. In this sense, at least at its roots, the distinction between Radical-Ontic Structural Realism and Moderate-Ontic Structural Realism lies in the divergence between Radical Naturalistic Metaphysics and Esfeld's account of Natural Philosophy (based on the Primitive Ontology approach). From the above distinctions, I will argue: i) even that Quantum Mechanics offers us good arguments in favor of Ontic Structural Realism, both main Ontic Structural Realism's proposals seem to struggle with QM's challenges; ii) Ontic Structural Realism's failure is not due to itself but to this metameta-physics proposals. That is, maybe some assumptions made by both NM and PO, like micro-physicalism, monism or metaphysical fundamentalism, should be reviewed or even dismissed from Ontic Structural Realism proposals.