El criterio de Empirical Grounding en el estructuralismo empirista

Abstract

Van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism has been threatened by what is known as the loss of reality objection: the pre-eminence of pragmatic factors in the scientific representation of phenomena seems to neglect the role of the world itself in the adequacy of theories. One of van Fraassen’s weapons for addressing to this objection is a set of methodological rules he calls criterion of empirical grounding. In the present work we question the effectiveness of this criterion (and the methodological strategy in general) to avoid objections such as the loss of reality.