Conceptual Reconstruction and Epistemic Import: Allosteric Mechanistic Explanations as a Unified Theory-Net

espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es mostrar que los analisis y reconstrucciones formales pueden ser de utilidad para discutir e iluminar cuestiones metateoricas sustantivas. Precedemos aqui por ejemplificacion, analizando y reconstruyendo una teoria bioquimica paradigmatica como caso de estudio, la teoria del alosterismo de Monod-Wyman-Changeux, y aplicando la reconstruccion a la discusion de algunas cuestiones planteadas por prominentes representantes de la nueva filosofia mecanicista. Concluimos que nuestro estudio muestra que al menos en este caso la aproximacion mecanicista y (alguna version de) otras aproximaciones mas tradicionales no son rivales, son complementarias. EnglishThe goal of this article is to show that formal analysis and reconstructions may be useful to discuss and shed light on substantive meta-theoretical issues. We proceed here by exemplification, analysing and reconstructing as a case study a paradigmatic biochemical theory, the Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) theory of allosterism, and applying the reconstruction to the discussion of some issues raised by prominent representatives of the new mechanist philosophy. We conclude that our study shows that at least in this case mechanicism and (some version of) more traditional accounts are not rivals but complementary approaches.