1 I am extremely grateful to Fiona Tregenna for many constructive comments on a previous draft.

Abstract The structuralist approach represents the relation between a model and physical system as two mathematical structures. However, since is prima facie not structure, seemingly fails to represent fact that science about concrete, reality. In this paper, I take up problem of lost reality suggest how it may be solved in purely fashion. start by briefly introducing both discussing various (n...

Russian Formalism’s suggestion that artistic literature makes the familiar strange finds echoes in today’s theories of “unnatural narrative.” “Naturalization” seemingly texts understands uncanny literary effects as based on qualities “natural” spoken language. Sifting through structuralist, pre-structuralist, and psychoanalytic musings second-person fiction or similar interpersonal relations, a...

Scientific change has two important dimensions: conceptual change and structural change. In this paper, I argue that the existence of conceptual change brings serious difficulties for scientific realism, and the existence of structural change makes structural realism look quite implausible. I then sketch an alternative account of scientific change, in terms of partial structures, that accommoda...

The speci…cation of the accumulation function is critical for the properties and implications of structuralist and post-Keynesian models. A large Kaleckian literature assumes that investment is relatively insensitive to variations in the utilization rate of capital, and this extension of a standard short-run "Keynesian stability condition" to the long run has been defended by Lavoie and Dutt, a...

My argument here is an extension of claims which I make elsewhere that there is a fundamental cleavage in (the study of) Caribbean literature and culture, a dichotomy (or perhaps, in these Post-Structuralist times, a différance) between those who adopt a philosophical approach (what Walcott calls here the ‘Classicist’ approach) and those who adopt a rhetorical approach (his term for those who a...