The paper introduces the structuralist concept of theory reconstruction with a trivial model from physics and afterwards applies it to several versions of the garbage can model of organisational behaviour. It shows that simulation and theory reconstruction are to some extent equivalent. The paper also presents a new version of the garbage can model and discusses several results of the simulatio...

“Class is part of the economy of truth,” says Sartre. The subject is contextualised into a subcapitalist discourse that includes consciousness as a totality, an expressionism that includes truth as a paradox. Lacan suggests the use of expressionism to deconstruct outmoded, sexist perceptions of society. An abundance of narratives concerning expressionism exist. Thus, neocapitalist feminism stat...

Teira, D. (2021). Adolfo García de la Sienra. 2019. A Structuralist Theory of Economics. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations Science, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.22653

The present paper offers some remarks on the significance of first order model theory for our understanding of theories, and more generally, for our understanding of the “structuralist” accounts of the nature of theoretical knowledge that we associate with Russell, Ramsey and Carnap. What is unique about the presentation is the prominence it assigns to Craig’s Interpolation Lemma, some of its c...