Structures in Physics and Neuroscience: Structural Realism and the Unity of Science.
We offer to extend structural realism into the field of mind and brain studies. The naturalised metaphysics of structural realism has been defined in terms of unification of sciences. The unification program has been carried out nicely in fields of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity. But for t...
| Published in: | Axiomathes: Global Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 479 - 496 |
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