{"id":347,"date":"2017-12-15T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-12-15T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:41:54","slug":"cautious-realism-and-middle-range-ontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/12\/15\/cautious-realism-and-middle-range-ontology\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautious realism and middle range ontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to participate in a book symposium about Anjan Chakravartty&#8217;s recent book <cite>Scientific Ontology<\/cite>. It is supposed to be a short, critical piece, so striking the right tone was difficult. I agree with Chakravartty on rather a lot, but there is little point in flagging where we concur. Also, because I focus on the issues that are of interest to me, there is the danger that it comes off as &#8220;so much about him, let&#8217;s talk about me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written it, though, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/job\/paper.php?item=scientificontology\">my final draft<\/a> is up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to participate in a book symposium about Anjan Chakravartty&#8217;s recent book Scientific Ontology. It is supposed to be a short, critical piece, so striking the right tone was difficult. I agree with Chakravartty on rather a lot, but there is little point in flagging where we concur. Also, because I focus on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/12\/15\/cautious-realism-and-middle-range-ontology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cautious realism and middle range ontology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-5B","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}