Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?

The Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics from (Bub & Pitowsky, 2010) has been criticized in two ways related to the ontological picture it supplies. This paper explores whether Ontic Structural Realism can supplement the metaphysics of ITIQM in a way that would satisfy its critics. The many similarities between the two views are detailed. And it is argued that the ITIQM view ca. 2010 does seem to be compatible with OSR, but as the view evolved in Bub's Bananaworld (2016), its fundamental metaphysical commitments shifted, making it a less clean fit with OSR. • Bub and Pitowsky's ITIQM from (2010) has many of the same features of Ladyman and Ross's Ontic Structural Realism. • This view was criticized in two ways that parallel criticisms of OSR. • OSR has answers to these two criticisms, which offer a view of how ITIQM could be viewed as an OSRist view. • Bub's later development of ITIQM posits a basic ontology of a mosaic of events, which is less in line with Ladyman and Ross. • Bub's view is, on the OSR analysis, a higher-level science, and not a 'final' interpretation of a fundamental theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]