Cassirer’s Structural Realism

By (author) Georges Ibongu Foreword by Christian Mockel

Book cover: Cassirer’s Structural Realism

Extent: 130, 130 pages

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin

Subjects: Philosophy, Technical Sciences: Computer Science, Engineering, IT, & Math

Series: Phänomenologie in der Naturwissenschaft

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2011)

ISBN: 9783832529123

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $50.00

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In this book Georges Ibongu shows that Ernst Cassirer adopts a sort of structural realism in his writings on physics. Cassirer does not deny the existence of physical entities. For him, however, a physical entity loses its absolute fixity and is involved in the process of physical knowledge. The electron is a definite object but cannot, as an individual, be designated by being here and now. The individuality of simple particles means, for Cassirer, that they are only describable as points of intersection of definite relations or structures.

  • By (author) Georges Ibongu
  • Foreword by Christian Mockel