La concepción estructural de la ciencia. Una lectura histórica desde sus aportes a la pragmática

Abstract

The central objective of the present paper is to make contributions to the history of the philosophy of science in general and to the Structuralist View (SV) in particular, highlighting the contributions made in the field of pragmatics from the latter. It is also a purpose to evaluate the achievements and to point out the limits and potentialities of the proposals argued in the SV framework. In a first stage the early developments of pragmatic ideas in the SV and its integration with the Kuhn´s perspective are discussed (Sneed 1971); (Stegmüller 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979). The work continues with the subsequent developments in this line of work (1982 Moulines, 1991a, 1991b, 2002); (Balzer, Moulines, and Sneed 1987). Finally, the “conciliatory attempt” of socio-historical approaches and formal approaches in relation to the proposals in the pragmatic of science within the SV are evaluated, and the view of the “inherited history” of the philosophy of science is discussed.