Questions tagged [structuralism]
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Position on postmodern philosophy in modern society
Let's say, there's some author. Baudrillard or Deleuze or whatever. A lot of people read them. Some of them more or less can understand what they write about.
And there's a university system that ...
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Inferring underlying codes from surface manifestations - who said it?
In Anthony Giddens' The Constitution of Society, page 16, he writes:
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the other hand, the notion of structure is more interesting. ...
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Is it essential to read Saussure's Course in General Linguistics to fully engage with Lévi-Strauss?
I'm already familiar with the general idea presented in the book, but I really want to read Lévi-Strauss' Structural Anthropology right now. If I not read Saussure, will i miss something in Lévi-...
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According to the theory of structural functionalism, what causes social disequilibrium?
I understand that the basic premise of structural functionalism is that social institutions serve the function of maintaining social stability and promoting social solidarity, but I don't understand ...
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What is the difference between operatic, operative, and operational from Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation?
The following is the conclusion from the chapter Simulacra and Science Fiction. I did not understand it, and such a specific categorization seemed unusual to me. I was hoping someone might be able to ...
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How does post modernism relate to post structuralism?
Going through the wikis of both, I get a similar feeling from both of them, but I can't put in words exactly how they are related. Here are simple introductions from wiki:
Postmodernism is an ...
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Is this a legitimate way to reframe structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics?
As an umbrella term, "structuralism" has to cover realist and nonrealist versions, while also carrying through the theme of its name nontrivially (for there is a trivial way to make ...
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What is the relationship between categorization and structuralism? [closed]
I have a couple questions:
Does the act of categorization or classification always reflect a structuralist mind?
Like wise, does the act of de-categorization (or re-categorization) reflect a post-...
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Per Mathematical Structuralism, can a pure mathematical theory have semantics that is not closed on isomorphism?
This question is the philosophical side of a question that I've recently posted to MathOverflow. Here, I'm specifically asking about the output of Mathematical Structuralism on that question that I'll ...
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Is it possible to reconcile the Enlightenment with post-modernism especially the work of Derrida?
I am referring to Derrida's response to Sokal where he claims his work does not criticize the Enlightenment.
However, given the enlightenment promoted the attitude that there existed truths, which ...
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What does "causally independent structures" mean?
I'm reading a book (Cummins, R. (1983), "The Nature of Psychological Explanation") where he says "...dispositions that cannot be instantiated in causally independent structures".
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Can you think of the bible as organising logos?
Can you think of the bible as organising logos?
I know there are different readings of the bible, as myth, as parable, as event, etc.. What sort of reading is that claim, that the Christian bible ...
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criticisms of mathematical structuralism
A popular, pretty modern trend in the philosophy of mathematics has been to treat mathematical objects as only possessing properties within the context of a mathematical structure. Does anyone know of ...
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Is this a type of nominalism?
Abstract entities do not exist, but their absences from each other, do, concretely. Is that a type of nominalism?
So the numbers five and four do not exist, but four not being five, is a concrete (I ...
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Does structuralism have preference for thinking through structures?
Structuralism states we are governed by narrow cultural structures.
I believe post-modernism and post-structuralism acknowledge the existence of this structures as well.
Is the difference in the ...
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