Wolff J E
King's College, London, UK.
Stud Hist Philos Sci. 2019 Apr;74:16-21. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.09.004. Epub 2018 Sep 24.
A central thesis of Steven French's brand of ontic structural realism has always been his eliminativism about objects. Unsurprisingly, this bold and controversial thesis has seen a lot of critical discussion. In his book The Structure of the World-Metaphysics & Representation, French accordingly defends this thesis against a range of challenges. A novel feature of this defense is the use of dependence relations to articulate his eliminativism. In this paper I take a critical look at French's defense of eliminativism and argue that the dependence relations invoked do not eliminate objects.
史蒂文·弗伦奇（Steven French）的本体结构实在论的一个核心论点一直是他对对象的消除主义。不出所料，这个大胆且有争议的论点引发了大量批判性讨论。在他的《世界的结构——形而上学与表征》一书中，弗伦奇相应地针对一系列挑战为这一论点进行了辩护。这种辩护的一个新颖之处在于利用依赖关系来阐明他的消除主义。在本文中，我批判性地审视了弗伦奇对消除主义的辩护，并认为所援引的依赖关系并没有消除对象。
