Acknowledgments
Research leading to this book was made possible by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (conacyt) of Mexico, through the project Filosofia de la Economia 127380.
Section 5 of Chapter 2 is a modified translation of A.
Garcia de la Sienra “Teona general de las clases”, originally published in A. Garcia de la Sienra (ed.) Reflexiones sobre la paradoja de Orayen. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de MexicoZInstituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, 2010, pp. 119-36.Chapter 4 is a modified version of A. Garda de la Sienra, “Idealization in Economics: A Structuralist View”, originally published in G. Borbone and K. Brzechczyn (eds.) Idealization XIV: Models in Science. Leiden and Boston: BrillZRodopi, 2016, pp. 113-29.
Chapter 7 is a modified version of A. Garda de la Sienra, “Continuously Differentiable Preferences”. ContaduriayAdministracion 61(2) (2016), pp. 334-52.
Chapter 8 is a modified translation of A. Garcia de la Sienra, “La estructura logica de la teoria de los juegos”. Critica 41(122) (2009), pp. 3-27.
Figure 1.1 was taken from F. A. Muller, “Reflections on the Revolution at Stanford”. Synthese 183 (2011), pp. 87-114. It is reproduced here with permission of Springer.
Figure 2.1 was taken from P. Suppes, Introduction to Logic. New York: Dover, 1999, p. 223. It is reproduced here with permission of Dover Publications.