Le Leggi dinamiche come guide alla ontologia fondamentale

Matarese, Vera (2022). Le Leggi dinamiche come guide alla ontologia fondamentale. La Nottola, 20(1), pp. 60-69. Cultural Association Center Leone XIII

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Are we entitled to read off our fundamental ontology from our dynamical laws? North (2013) answers in the affirmative, by claiming that we should posit, in the fundamental world, whatever makes the dynamical laws true. Her view is even committed to term­objectivism, according to which equivalent but different mathematical formulas depict different fundamental structures of the physical world (North 2009). In contrast, Esfeld (2020) answers in the negative, by claiming that dynamical laws do not wear their ontology on their sleeves, as their predicates are only nomological parameters, devoid of any ontological significance. I argue that it is desirable to distinguish between parts of the dynamical laws that aim to directly represent some physical entities and parts of the dynamical laws that do not. However, even those parts that do not fulfill this goal are ontologically significant, as they reveal the structure of the world.

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