Introduction: The Modelist Views and the Structuralist View of Theories
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me5.238Keywords:
model, scientific theory, experience, representationAbstract
In this article, I describe and critically analyze those epistemological and methodological views that have been preponderant in the philosophy of science of the last third of the 20th century as well as of the beginning of the 21th century. They all reveal some similarities that allow grouping them under just one family of approaches, which may be labelled “modelist” or “semantic” since the semantic notion of a “model” plays a central role in them ― though there also are important divergences between them. The modelist views here considered are: the set-theoretical axiomatics of the Stanford School, the representationalism of Patrick Suppes and his collaborators, Günther Ludwig’s representationalism, the related approaches of Bas van Fraassen, Frederick Suppe, and Ronald Giere, as well as the metatheoretical structuralism founded by Joseph D. Sneed and Wolfgang Stegmüller.
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