Évora Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Volume Two From Ontology To Structure

Abstract

The structuralist approaches retake the war, characteristic of ancient Greek thought, between the partisans of matter and the ‘friends of ideas’, although they abandon the metaphysical and ontological issues, thus favouring the methodological aspects of knowledge, focusing on those functions which constitute and build up the worlds of human culture. The present volume contains the results of the seventh Évora International Symposium in Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, entitled “Structuralism: Roots, Plurality, and Contemporary debates” (2016).