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The structuralist program in the philosophy of science offers a promising framework for theoretical investigations in psychology. It recommends as a scientific language the informal theory of sets, and provides powerful tools to handle many problems of interest in the analysis of psychological theories. This chapter gives a short introduction into the structuralist view of theories, and assesses the current state of attempts to reconstruct or construct psychological theories from a structuralist perspective.
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Westmeyer, H. (1989). Psychological Theories from a Structuralist Point of View. In: Westmeyer, H. (eds) Psychological Theories from a Structuralist Point of View. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84015-9_1
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