A structuralist "reconstruction sketch" of an idealized theory is provided. This theory, QM, has some essential features of quantum mechanics. QM is a theory about abstract "result-observation events", formal characterizations ...

Structuralism provides useful resources for advancing our understanding of the intertheoretic reduction relation and its place in the history of science. This paper begins by surveying these resources and assessing their ...

A graphical representation of the model-theoretic structure of explanation is used to reconstruct five distinct specializations of Mendelian genetics. Structural variations between the five models are highlighted and used ...

Particle theories intend to describe the fundamental constituents from which all matter is constructed and the interactions among them. These constituents include atoms and molecules as well as their subatomic constituents, ...

El presente trabajo pretende dar respuesta a la demanda, abiertamente hecha por Kuhn (1976) y Feyerabend (1977), así como por los impulsores de la corriente estructuralista, Balzer, Moulines & Sneed (1987), sobre la necesidad ...

This is a study of the concept of idealization in terms of the structuralist view of scientific theories. In the structuralist literature, the notion of idealization has been commonly analyzed as a sort of model construction. ...

We reconstruct “the classical transformational theory” of Chomsky, and fit it into the structuralist theory of science. We describe both the formal and the empirical features of this classical account, so that one basic ...

En este artículo se arguye que pueden distinguirse cuatro tipos fundamentales de estructuras diacrónicas en la ciencia y que estos cuatro tipos pueden representarse formalmente mediante una versión refinada del aparato del ...

Aceptando la distinción que hace Frigg (2010) entre sistemas modelo y estructuras conjuntistas, y reconociendo que los sistemas modelo son una parte importante del aparato de las ciencias empíricas, mi propósito en este ...

Este volumen temático se estructura en dos partes. Cada una de ellas contiene trabajos que acentúan o bien una o bien otra de las dos características distintivas –estrechamente vinculadas, como se puede apreciar en las ...