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...

I distill the indispensability argument to four general charateristics, which yield six unfortunate consequences, unwelcome characteristics of the objects yielded by the argument. The indispensabilist’s objects are not mathematical, in any traditional sense, but merely empirical posits. Then, I characterize a form of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics which relies on an indispensabi...

In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, they have the advantage of being independent of interpretative questions. As such, they can be used to claim that, even in the current absence of one agreed-upon interpretation, quantum mechanics is...

This paper investigates the systemic nature of methodological individualism. According to widespread belief, the notion of autonomy of the actor that is defended by methodological individualism is mistaken because it is incompatible with the study of society in terms of its organized structure. We argue that this viewpoint must be rejected. In our opinion, it stems from confusion between ontolo...

The beginning of this century hailed a new paradigm in linguistics, the paradigm brought about by de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Genérále and subsequently elaborated by Jakobson, Hjelmslev and other linguists. It seemed that the linguistics of this century was destined to be structuralistic. However, half of the century later a brand new paradigm was introduced by Chomsky's Syntactic Struc...

This paper explores two wayang performances: the purwa shadow puppet show and Eblek interactive show. The research compares concepts behind performances. Wayang Interactive was developed based on inspiration taken from kulit purwa. qualitative method applies Levi-Strauss structural analysis approach. Behind human work is not just wishful thinking but form of values or meanings that subconscious...

In their paper on structuralism in Belgium and the Netherlands, Parret & Van de Velde (1980: 145) argue that a number of fundamental texts written in Dutch "have had no international influence, although these books, once translated into German or English, would undoubtledly have become well known works of linguistic and philosophical structuralism". Among the books they mention one finds Stutte...