La concepción estructuralista de la ciencia

Abstract

Philosophy of Science has evolved out of two different perspectives: Synchronic andDiachronic, and this has elicited deep controversies. This paper intends to show that despite their 4fferences both views are important and that nowadays the structuralist program of reconstruction of theories constitutes the best organic synthesis of both views. For this aim, and
taking collision mechanics as an illustration, I make clear those aspects of the theory that can be treated from a semantic formal point of view, specially the theoretical model (the theory's formal nucleus K) and those that their by pragmatic character, are more related to the diachronic perspective (the theory's intentional I applications). Regarding this last aspect, namely that of the applications, three possibilities are examined: total success, partial success and total failure, to conclude that, in structuralism, the determination of intentional applications, since it is a pragmatic-diachronic issue,requires the interdisciplinary collaboration of logicians, historians and sociologists.

Keywords:

Perspectiva sincrónica

perspectiva diacrónica

modelo

estructura

aplicación intencional

giro pragmático

programa estructuralista de reconstrucción de teorías

metateoría

axiomatización teórico-conjuntista

Synchronic perspective

diachronic perspective

model

structure

intentional application

pragmatic shift

structuralist program of reconstruction of theories

metatheory

axiomatization

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