Scientific Structuralism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bokulich, Alisa (Editor), Bokulich, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 281
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.

Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most fruitful approach to solving ma...