ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides structuralist rational reconstructions of some economic theories in order to show their logical structure and address their methodological issues. The president of the organizing committee was Alfred Tarski and the symposium was focused on the foundations of geometry and physics, as well as on general problems of the axiomatic method. The book explains a rigorous and complete way the relevant concept of set-theoretical structure, presenting the concept of a model of a first-order language as a special case of the former. It examines the doctrine of representational, in particular fundamental measurement, in order to discuss the role it plays in the structuralist view of scientific theories. The book aims to respond to the objections and criticisms raised against the doctrine of representational measurement by J. Michell and by M. Boumans.
