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2017 Essay Prize of the Metaphysics of Entanglement Project: "What is Structure?", Deadline: 16 Dec 2016

2017 Essay Prize:  What is structure?



The Metaphysics of Entanglement Project
<http://www.metaphysics-of-entanglement.ox.ac.uk>


University of  Oxford



The Metaphysics of Entanglement Project is pleased to announce their 2017
Essay Prize.The winner of the Prize will receive £250.


Topic: *What is structure?*


The concept of structure is central to contemporary debates in many areas
of philosophy. In the philosophy of science, structural realism has
(re-)emerged as a possible middle ground between realism and antirealism.
Ontic structural realists take this position to support a fundamental
ontology of structure alone, and have claimed additional support from
metaphysical issues in physics. In metaphysics, there has been a growing
interestin structure and related issues of fundamentality and identity.
Structuralist approaches to ontology?according to which structure is
fundamental?have been applied to causation, identity,  and the project of
metaphysics more broadly.


We solicit philosophically informed papers addressing the nature of
structure in contemporary analytic philosophy. We are particularly (but not
exclusively) interested in work that addresses the debates mentioned above:
For instance, ontic structural realists contrast their structuralist
ontology with traditional pictures that comprise objects bearing
properties. But how can structure be understood so as to provide analternative
to object-based ontology? Structuralists in metaphysics claim that
certainentities
are less fundamental than structures. How are we to understand such claims
aboutthefundamentality ofstructure?


Requirements

In assessing entries,priority will be given to originality, clarity of
expression, breadth of interest, and potential for advancing discussion.
Papers should be under 8,000 words and anonymized for blind refereeing.
Submissions are invited from postgraduate students and from early career
researchers (understood as being within 8 years of receipt of PhD, though
exceptions will be considered?please email for advice in the latter case).



*The closing date for receipt of entries is 16 of December 2016.*

Contact: quantum@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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