The attempt to institute a viable structuralist explanatory project in the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology) has been beset, since its inception, with what some have considered to be insurmountable difficulties. Four such roadblocks deserve mention. 1) The first, I refer to as Piaget’s question [Piaget 1970, 113]: “how do [social] forms acquire structural organization?”...

Structuralism is a movement within the sciences of man holding that the order which we are able to observe in the world is isomorphic with the order that obtains in the observing mind. The correspondences that exist between world and mind are not generally apparent from inspection, but require scrutiny into the "deep structure" that underlies phenomena, a concept first propounded by Ferdinand D...

literary texts critics in the contemporary era have had an outstanding development. schools and critical approaches have been created in this regard such as structuralism, deconstruction or the attitudes which pay attention to reader’s reading. these attitudes do not belong to new text but belongs to the ancient ones as well. one of these schools was structuralism which its consequent was metho...

Along with Frege, Russell maintained an absolutist stance regarding the subject matter of mathematics, revealed rather than imposed, or proposed, by logical analysis. The Fregean definition of cardinal number, for example, is viewed as (essentially) correct, not merely adequate for mathematics. And Dedekind’s “structuralist” views come in for criticism in the Principles. But, on reflection, Rus...

According to mathematical structuralism, the subject matter of mathematics is not the study of mathematical objects, but of mathematical structures. By moving away from objects, the structuralist claims to be in a position to solve the ‘access’ problem: structuralism explains the possibility of mathematical knowledge without requiring any access to mathematical objects. Fraser MacBride has chal...

Structural anthropology remains a hidden influence in Frantz Fanon’s theory of the ‘sociogenesis’ mental illness. This chapter outlines how belief therapeutic capacity ‘socialization’ critically absorbs Claude Lévi-Strauss’s examination link between ‘madness’ and symbolic structure society. These innovations, Chamberlin argues, pushed Fanon to institute ‘semi-hospitalization’ as radically diale...

The recent discovery of an interpretation of constructive type theory into abstract homotopy theory suggests a new approach to the foundations of mathematics with intrinsic geometric content and a computational implementation. Voevodsky has proposed such a program, including a new axiom with both geometric and logical significance: the Univalence Axiom. It captures the familiar aspect of inform...