James Ladyman, Don Ross, David Spurrett, John Collier (2007), Oxford University Press (book) — DOI-10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276196.001.0001
Standing in the record
Registered on 2026-09-29 at the owner’s request, because the owner’s prior-art novelty map (a private working
document on concepts as projectors, the linear representation hypothesis and their neighbours) cites it: rows 9 and §4 list: primary must-cite for OSR (‘ontology is the epistemology of invariants’); also the bridge from OSR to Dennett’s real patterns.
It is seeded from metadata and published descriptions and has not been read here.
Only the year of first publication is known; published: uses 1 January.
Identification notes: Authors per title page: Ladyman and Ross, with David Spurrett and John Collier (Crossref lists ‘with John Collier’; chapters list Spurrett). Crossref issued 2007-06-01 (OSO record); year precision kept. Nucleation LIT-217/218/219/220 notes record that this book ‘could not be obtained from a legitimate source’ — it was sought, never registered. LIT-219 (2024) explicitly revises it.
A close reading was attempted on 2026-09-29. No legitimate full text could be reached: Checked first: the private converted-text cache (no file, no manifest entry). OpenAlex for DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276196.001.0001: closed. Its locations (LoC TOC, the Bristol Pure record, CiNii) carry no full text, and Oxford Scholarship Online is subscription-only. Semantic Scholar has no record. Internet Archive has four ‘opensource’ items titled ‘James Ladyman, Don Ross, David Spurrett, John Collier, Every Thing Must Go…’. These are user uploads of an in-copyright OUP book, i.e. unauthorised third-party uploads, and were not used. No author-hosted copy was found (nucleation LIT-217–220 record the same result). It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.