The eco-structural composition technique uses natural and organic sound source materials at the beginning of a composition project with the intention of imbuing composed music with a natural or organic structure. This paper will describe a case study exploration of an ecostructural musical work and the process of composing it, from the source material to the finished work. The paper concludes b...

In 1939, Curry proposed a philosophy of mathematics he called formalism. He made this proposal in two works originally written in 1939. These are the two philosophical works for which Curry is known, and they have left a false impression of his views. In this article, I propose to clarify Curry’s views by referring to some of his later writings on the subject. I claim that Curry’s philosophy wa...

Deconstruction began as a series of techniques invented by Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and others to analyze literary and philosophical texts. These techniques, in turn, were connected to larger philosophical claims about the nature of language and meaning. One such assertion is that the repetition of a text in a new context often subtly changes its meaning. There could be no better example o...

In my view, structuralism as presented by Shapiro (1991, 1997), Resnik (1991), and elsewhere offers the most plausible philosophy of mathematics: Mathematics is about structures, indeed it is the science of pure structures. Structures have no mysterious ontological status, and hence mathematics is not ontologically mysterious, either. Again, it is no mystery how we can acquire knowledge about s...