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    Otávio Bueno

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

    b. 1969

    Otávio Bueno is a Brazilian-American philosopher at the University of Miami known for his work in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and modal epistemology. He has developed and defended structural empiricism and the partial structures framework (with Newton da Costa), and has contributed to debates over scientific representation, mathematical ontology, and modal metaphysics. His work spans anti-realist philosophies of science and inclusive accounts of mathematical and modal objects.

    Notable Achievements

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    Co-developed the partial structures / quasi-truth framework for scientific representation with Newton da Costa

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    Defended structural empiricism as an alternative to both full scientific realism and van Fraassen's constructive empiricism

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    Advanced modal epistemology and possibilist accounts of ordinary objects

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    Contributed to mathematical nominalism and debates over the existence of abstract objects

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    Wrote extensively on the philosophy of quantum mechanics and scientific modeling

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    Modality & Possibility

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    Ordinary objects include both actually concrete objects and possible objects that are not in fact concrete but could have been.

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    Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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