Behavior analysis is an example of a selection science, and behavioral programs that follow the tenets of selectionism, long advocated by B. F. Skinner, can have a large impact on social problems. This article describes the characteristics of selection sciences and their application in the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction, which addresses both adult literacy and children's learning a...

Bishop’s informal set theory is briefly discussed and compared to Lawvere’s Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets (ETCS). We then present a constructive and predicative version of ETCS, whose standard model is based on the constructive type theory of Martin-Löf. The theory, CETCS, provides a structuralist foundation for constructive mathematics in the style of Bishop. Mathematics Subject Cl...

Hypertext advanced software for organizing information according to webs of conceptual, rather than symbolic, links has recently provoked humanists to reconsider post-structuralist semiotic concepts. Debates about the design and uses of hypertext, among both software developers and humanists, reflect a conflict between two problematic views of text: as a medium for social interaction, and as a ...

Introduction Until quite recently, industrial-organization economists, bank regulators, and the Justice Department shared the view that market structure, that is, the number and size distribution of competitors in a market, is the primary determinant of the conduct and performance of banks operating in that market. More particularly, the traditional structuralist view is that the greater the sh...

This article aims to present some criticisms of Foucault and post-structuralist feminists the psychoanalytic device, mainly about hysterization woman’s body ‘hysterical woman’, constructed in 18Th century trough scientific discourses. And also, bringing feminism closer Freudian psychoanalysis, through reappropiation by discourse subject being author their own speech.

This paper considers the nature and role of axioms from the point of view of the current debates about the status of category theory and, in particular, in relation to the “algebraic” approach tomathematical structuralism.My aim is to show that category theory has as much to say about an algebraic consideration of meta-mathematical analyses of logical structure as it does about mathematical ana...

Shamanism and psychedelics are central to understanding the evolutionary roots of ecopsychology and its basic principles. The ancient ritual roots of shamanism constituted the context within which psychedelic experiences contributed selective influences to the evolution of human neuropsychology. Both shamanic psychology and ecopsychology involve a neuroepistemology that reflects the neurotransm...

Discussion of Marxism in the Western world since the nineteen-sixties has been dominated by a reaction against Hegelian ideas. This agenda has been shared equally by the analytical Marxism which has predominated in the English speaking world and by the structuralist Marxism which has been the major influence in the continental tradition. The main purpose of my own work has been to reassess thes...