Abstract

ALVAREZ, Marisa Alejandra; ARAUJO, Carolina Inés  and  MEDINA, Celia Georgina. (Reduction as an example of intertheorical relation). Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2013, n.44, pp.129-141. ISSN 1668-8104.

            Scientific theories are in permanent relationship, it is not also possible to confirm empirically a theory without presupposing others, even it is not possible to introduce a new one if it is not compatible with the accepted knowledge. A classic way of analyzing the problem of relations has been the reductionist model.             In this paper we will analyze intertheoretical relations problem by focusing on the reduction in order to see whether or not this has been overcome. This will begin with historical account of the subject, mainly the Vienna Circle and the logical empiricism. Then we will show some critics against the received view's idea of reduction, chiefly the historicist turn. After we will analyze the vision of Ulises Moulines (1991), representative of the structuralist view, which advocates the reduction as one of different kind of possible types of intertheorical relationships and offers an account of it, according to hem, that avoid historicist criticism grounded in the meanings variations in theoretical change. Finally we will evaluate whether this last position overcame the received view.

Keywords : Emergence; Reduction; Intertheorical Relation.

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