Hacia una revisión del modelo tradicional de cambio teórico: coexistencia entre física cuántica y relatividad general

Abstract

In the strong debate in the philosophy of science of the 20th century between scientific realists and anti-realists, the issue of theoretical change was particularly considered. In this work, I will argue that the lineal picture of theoretic change as succession by replacement, on which that debate is based, is an oversimplified model. In fact, it cannot account for the case of theory bifurcation, which leads to the coexis-tence of supposedly fundamental but incompatible theories, as the case of quantum physics and general relativity.