For or against structural realism? A verdict from high energy physics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.01.003zbMath1307.81008OpenAlexW2086727011MaRDI QIDQ2261519

Antigone M. Nounou

Publication date: 6 March 2015

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.01.003

zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesPlatonismgauge symmetriesontic structural realism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Physics (00A79)

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