Idealización y objetos abstractos en ciencia económicaun comentario a la teoría estructuralista de Adolfo García de la Sienra:

  1. Donato Rodríguez, Xavier de 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Revista:
STOA

ISSN: 2007-1868

Ano de publicación: 2023

Título do exemplar: Visiones estructuralistas sobre la ciencia. Reflexiones en torno a la obra de Adolfo García de la Sienra

Volume: 14

Número: 27

Páxinas: 35-61

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.25009/ST.2023.27.2716 WoS: WOS:001097766800003 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

In this paper, some issues related to idealization in science are discussed in the light of García de la Sienra’s approach to the topic in his new book, A Structuralist Theory of Economics (Routledge, London, 2019). The paper focuses on topics related to the notions of abstraction, idealization/concretization, and scientific models. After discussing the fictionalist proposal of Frigg and other authors, according to which models are fictions, I present and argue in favor of an alternative, the artefactualist one, according to which models are better understood as abstract artifacts, which are the product of a process of abstraction and idealization. In their turn, abstraction and idealization are understood in terms of a network of conditionalizations and counterfactual deformations of various degrees.

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