id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9991 Structuralism (philosophy of science) - Wikipedia .html text/html 3399 448 50 Structuralism[α] (also known as scientific structuralism[1] or as the structuralistic theory-concept)[2] is an active research program in the philosophy of science, which was first developed in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s by several analytic philosophers. The philosophical concept of (scientific) structuralism is related to that of epistemic structural realism (ESR).[3] ESR, a position originally and independently held by Henri Poincaré (1902),[8][9] Bertrand Russell (1927),[10] and Rudolf Carnap (1928),[11] was resurrected by John Worrall (1989), who proposes that there is retention of structure across theory change. (1968), "Scientific Methodology and the Causal Theory of Perception", in: Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds.), Problems in the Philosophy of Science, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9991.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9991.txt