Structural Losses, Structural Realism and the Stability of Lie Algebras

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Structural Losses, Structural Realism and the Stability of Lie Algebras

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

One of the key assumptions associated with structural realism is the claim that successful scientific theories approximately preserve their structurally based content as they are progressively developed and that this content alone can explain their relevant predictions. The precise way in which these theories are preserved is not trivial but, according to this realist thesis, any kind of structural loss should not occur among theoretical transitions. Although group theory has been proven effective in accounting for preserved structures in the context of physics, structural realists are confronted with the fact that even group-theoretic structures are not immune to these structural discontinuities. Under such circumstances, my contribution consists in a two-fold task. Firstly, I will establish a general condition at the level of the group-theoretic structure to avoid the pessimistic induction argument by appealing to Lie algebra deformation and stability theory. Secondly, I will provide a case study associated with quantum-relativistic kinematics to demonstrate that this condition is actually satisfied. Specifically, through this case study I will support the claim that if the full Lie algebras of our current successful theories are stable, it is possible to disregard any kind of structural loss in the future and explain the relevant successful predictions in a way that we can support structural realism accordingly.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Structural Losses, Structural Realism and the Stability of Lie Algebras

Popis výsledku anglicky

One of the key assumptions associated with structural realism is the claim that successful scientific theories approximately preserve their structurally based content as they are progressively developed and that this content alone can explain their relevant predictions. The precise way in which these theories are preserved is not trivial but, according to this realist thesis, any kind of structural loss should not occur among theoretical transitions. Although group theory has been proven effective in accounting for preserved structures in the context of physics, structural realists are confronted with the fact that even group-theoretic structures are not immune to these structural discontinuities. Under such circumstances, my contribution consists in a two-fold task. Firstly, I will establish a general condition at the level of the group-theoretic structure to avoid the pessimistic induction argument by appealing to Lie algebra deformation and stability theory. Secondly, I will provide a case study associated with quantum-relativistic kinematics to demonstrate that this condition is actually satisfied. Specifically, through this case study I will support the claim that if the full Lie algebras of our current successful theories are stable, it is possible to disregard any kind of structural loss in the future and explain the relevant successful predictions in a way that we can support structural realism accordingly.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

ISSN

0039-3681

e-ISSN

1879-2510

Svazek periodika

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Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

91

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

28-40

Kód UT WoS článku

000744244700003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85119509598