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Jaramillo U., J. M. (2024). Data models and its role in scientific theories Representational embedding in empirical structuralism vs.explanatory embedding in metatheoretical structuralism . Discusiones Filosóficas, 25(45), 117–142. https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2024.25.45.6
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In the contemporary philosophy of science we can highlight three types of structuralism: (i) structural realism, either as epistemic structural realism or as ontic structural realism, (ii) empiricist structuralism, and (iii) metatheoretical structuralism. This paper presents and analyzes the empiricist structuralism of B. Van Fraassen (2008) and the metatheoretical structuralism of J. D. Sneed (1971) and others, in order to establish their similarities and differences based on T. Bartelborth’s (1996) distinction between “representational embedding” and “explanatory embedding” and highlighting the fundamental role of data models in scientific theories, as P. Suppes did (1992).
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De la Pava, L. V. y Gálvez, E. F. (2017). El estructuralismo filosófico y los fundamentos de las matemáticas: el debate Hellman-Apode. Praxis
Filosófica, 45, 197-218.
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Latinoamérica. Tecnos.
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Results. Gruyter.
————— (1997). El desarrollo estructural de la ciencia. Paidós.
————— (2005). Models of Data, Theoretical Models, and Ontology. A Structuralist Perspective. En Hoffmann, M., Lenhard, J. y Seeger, F.(eds.). Activity and Sign. (325-333). Springer.
———–– (2007). Explicación teórica y compromisos ontológicos. Un modelo estructuralista. Quaderns de Filosofia i Ciència, (37), 7-14.
Nagel, E., Suppes, P. y Tarski, A. (eds.). (1962). Models of Data. En Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 1960
International Congress. (252-261). Stanford U. P.
Sneed, P. (1971). The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics. Reidel. Stegmüller, W. (1981). La concepción estructuralista de las teorías. Alianza.
Suppe, F. (1989). Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism. U. of Illinois P.
Suppes, P. (1960). A Comparison of the Meaning and Use of Models in Mathematics and Empirical Sciences. Synthese, 12, 287-301.
———— (1962). Models of Data. En Nagel, E. P., Suppes, P. y Tarski, A. (eds.). Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proccedings of the 1960
International Congress. (252-261). Stanford U.P.
————— (1969). Estudios de Filosofía y Metodología de la Ciencia (Rolleri, J. L., trad.). Alianza.
Van Fraassen, B. (1980). The Scientific Image. Oxford U.P.
———— (1985). Empiricism in Philosophy of Science. En Churchland, P.M. y Clifford, A. (eds.). Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism. (245-308). Chicago U. P.
———— (1997). Structure and Perspective: Philosophical Perplexity and Paradox. Logic and Scientific Methods. En Dalla Chiara, M. L. et al. (eds.). Logic and Scientific Method. Kluwer Academic Press.
———— (2006). Representation: The Problem for Structuralism. Philosophy of Science 73 5(5), 536-547.
———— (2007). Structuralism about Science: Some Common Problems. Aristotelian Society 81(1), 45-61.
———— (2008). Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective. Oxford U.P.
Votsis, I. (2003). Is Structure Not Enough?. Philosophy of Science, 70, 879-90.
