Vol. 14 No. 27 (2023)

The reconstruction of the structure of scientific theories with model-theoretical tools —structuralism— has become a methodological paradigm within the philosophy of science. On the one hand, it makes it possible to study the intra-theoretical relationships between different parts of a current or historical scientific theory, but it also offers an approach to understanding what a scientific theory in general is. Structuralist tools have so much power of expression that they have been successfully applied not only to the natural sciences, but also to the economic and social sciences, which has allowed that during the last three decades the structuralist philosophy of science has advanced in the critical and rigorous examination of semantic, methodological, epistemological, and even historical issues (Cfr. Suppes 2000).

Adolfo García de la Sienra Guajardo has become one of the most important figures of Spanish-speaking structuralism. His contributions to the philosophy of science and economics can be found in the more than eighty publications through which he has investigated the logical structure of different scientific theories, the philosophical and formal foundations of structuralism, as well as the relationship between structures and representations in science. His most recent work, A Structuralist Theory of economics (2019), constitutes one of the most substantial contributions made to both the structuralist tradition and the philosophy of economics in recent decades.