This paper discusses some issues in the interpretation of inflation within recent structuralist models, giving special attention to the different views of the precise role of conflict in inflation that, in turn, can be found among them. The first section of the paper is devoted to a presentation of the common features shared by most recent structuralist views, essentially those that follow from...

This article explores the aesthetic implications of ecostructuralism. Eco-structuralism is a method of music composition that utilises the sonic features of natural sounds as structural elements in new compositions. This paper places eco-structuralism within an aesthetic and analytical framework. It explores views of aesthetics and nature and discusses how eco-structuralism is positioned in rel...

The Cours de linguistique générale (1916), which became the master text for structuralist linguistics and semiotics, is characterized by a series of dichotomies. Some them, e.g. langue parole, signified signifier, arbitrary motivated, are very well known, others less so. This paper looks at Saussure’s semiotics in terms these dichotomies, considers how later critiques, such as Voloshinov’s (192...

Under what conditions does a physical system implement or realize a computation? Structuralism about computational implementation, espoused by Chalmers and others, holds that a physical system realizes a computation just in the case the system instantiates a pattern of causal organization isomorphic to the computation‟s formal structure. I argue against structuralism through counter-examples dr...