The main goal of this article is to present some counterarguments to S. Psillos’ critique of a philosophical position known as Ontic Structural Realism (OSR). The main claim in OSR consists in a thesis that structures are ontologically fundamental and autonomous. After providing a brief and general sketch of the OSR, I reconstruct Psillos’ argument aimed specifically at OSR. I call his argument “he argument from the impossibility of ontological autonomy of structure”. I claim, that this argument bites only if we agree with Psillos that the right and only way to understand structure in general is that borrowed form mathematical structuralism. I dispute with this and some of his other claims. I provide three counterarguments to Psillos’ views. My own general claim is that Psillos’ reasoning is unsound, at least in the domain of philosophy of physics; in the end all the troubles which OSR faces don’t lead this position to self-refutation but generate ways in which it can develop further.
The main aim of this paper is to provide an interpretative application of Józef Życiński’s philosophical work. I claim that one can find in Życiński’s thought criteria for evaluating certain positions which use platonistic concepts in order to solve specific problems in the context of philosophy of physics, especially philosophy of spacetime. After reconstructing Życiński’s philosophy, I use the derived criteria to evaluate positions of Howard Stein’s and Max Tegmark’s. I conclude that, according to criteria taken from Życiński’s philosophy, the former’s views are more plausible, and so create a better starting point in developing a platonistic structuralist position.