In this paper I challenge and adjudicate between the two positions that have come to prominence in the scientific realism debate: deployment realism and structural realism. I discuss a set of cases from the history of celestial mechanics, including some of the most important successes in the history of science. To the surprise of the deployment realist, these are novel predictive successes towa...

The phonological works of Tadeusz Batóg concern rst of all the logical reconstruction of the concept of the phoneme. It should be stressed at the very beginning that the works in question have established a standard which should be recommended in all attempts at a logical reconstruction of linguistic theories. The Author uses, along with the standard machinery of the classical predicate calculu...

In this article, I attempt to address some enduring problems in formulation and practical use of the notion of structure in contemporary social science. I begin by revisiting the question of the fidelity of Anthony Giddens’ appropriation of the idea of structure with respect to Levi-Strauss. This requires a reconsideration of Levi-Strauss’ original conceptualization of “social structure” which ...

Bertrand Russell (The analysis of matter. Routledge, London, 1927) defended a form of structuralism according to which all we can know about the world is structure. In response, Max Newman (Mind 37:137–148, 1928) raised a formidable challenge that threatens to turn structuralism into something trivial: as long as there are enough objects in the relevant domain, one can always obtain a structure...

Philosophically, Q.S. Al-'Alaq 1-5 forms an ethical structure as the foundation for developing teaching profession in Islamic education. The theoretical claim this study is al-'Alaq was elaborated with theory of transcendental structuralism, resulting professional ethics. In addition, ethics teachers can be used a framework to analyze problems educators general. aims are explain relationship be...

In this chapter I consider what recent work on background independent physics can do for structuralism, and what structuralism can do for background independent physics. I focus on the problems of time and observables in gravitational physics. The ‘frozen’ character of the observables of general relativity is usually considered to constitute a serious problem for the theory. I argue that by inv...

“The primitive view–surely that of Kant–was that whatever is trivial is obvious. We know that this is wrong; and I would put it that the nature of mathematical knowledge appears more deeply mysterious today than it ever did in earlier centuries – that one of the advances we have made in philosophy has been to come to an understanding of just ∗I am grateful to audiences at the Steinfest, Univers...

Untuk meraih posisi unggul di antara sesama penulis sastra, dalam hal ini sastra anak, seorang pengarang harus melalui beberapa tahapan sulit karir kepengarangannya. Dan arena konsep strukturalisme genetik Bourdieu merupakan perjuangan, adu kekuatan, sebuah medan dominasi dan konflik antar individu, kelompok demi mendapatkan posisinya. Posisi itu dapat diraih habitus modal. itu, penelitian bert...