Are elementary particles real (per any variant of scientific realism)?
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But a lot of the conversation can be modified to the ‘what will survive theory change?’ question, which is another reason why physics is attractive and possibly unique. People like ‘structure’ because we clearly recover the structure of past theories in their appropriate limits.
Yea, I agree though I'm not sure if I'm a structural realist though I haven't thought about it deeply enough yet I'll admit.
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I’m personally partial to: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/12889/ and a lot of the stuff David Wallace has written, but it’s definitely a pretty decent divergence from the sort of work you’re used to lol
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yea, i mean i honestly think that developing a physical theory that is (1) non-perturbative (2) conceptually tractable is super important work, though i suppose that's more in your line of work than mine.
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