Structuralism resources:
Concept and Form: The Cahiers pour l’Analyse and Contemporary French Thought
The Cahiers pour l’Analyse was a journal published by a group of young philosophy graduates at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Ten issues of the journal appeared between 1966 and 1969. Guided by the examples of Canguilhem, Lacan and Althusser, the Cahiers were conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the primacy of formal concepts and scientific rigour. As distinct from philosophies based on the interpretation of meaning or lived experience, the Cahiers sought to combine structuralism and psychoanalysis with logical or mathematical formalization, generating a field of theoretical reflection that continues to guide some of today’s most significant and provocative philosophical work.
David Chalmer’s Structuralism and Skepticism syllabus (Fall 2012)
Overview: Structuralism is very roughly the thesis that the key to understanding the world is understanding its structure: that is, understanding the way it is organized into an abstract structure of relations. Varieties of structuralism have been developed in recent years in many areas of philosophy: perhaps most influentially in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and social and political philosophy, but also in the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, metaphilosophy, and other areas… We’ll be focusing more on the sort of structuralism that originates with Carnap and Russell (proceeding through Maxwell, Lewis, and others) than the sort that originates with Saussure (proceeding through Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and others), but if there turn out to be productive connections to investigate between the two traditions, it would be interesting to discuss them.
Bristol University’s Foundations of Structuralism Project
No Subject – Encyclopedia of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man
Structural Realism at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Projects based in Vancouver:
Decentral Vancouver – A collaborative community inspired by the ideas behind Bitcoin, decentralization, and the open source movement.
Lacan Salon – Psychoanalytic study group, runs alternate Tuesday evenings 7-9pm in room 2205 at SFU Woodward’s.
Text to Speech Reading Group – A reading group organized by Western Front, Cineworks, and VIVO Media Arts Centre, focused on writing about media, media art and the surrounding concepts and frameworks of the mediated world.
Vancouver Institute for Social Research – A graduate-level critical theory free school in downtown Vancouver, generally occurring over a month or two of consecutive Monday evenings in the spring.
Vancouver LessWrong/Rationality Community – Hub for meetups of the LessWrong and epistemic rationality community; also lists events of the Vancouver History and Philosophy of Science reading group.
Other projects we like:
The Applied Virtuality Theory Lab
The Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy
Complexity Explorer (Santa Fe Institute)
Constructivist E-Print Archive
Cybernetics Club (at Learning Gardens)
The Everything List
Glass Bead Journal
The Information Philosopher
LessWrong
Monas and Nomos (Vera Bühlmann)
The New Centre for Research and Practice
The nLab (Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy)
P2P Foundation Wiki
Philosophy and Computing
Philosophy of Brains Blog
Plus Magazine
Principia Cybernetica
Qualia Computing
Sothis Music-Theater Ensemble
Theory and History of Ontology
Uberty (Resource and Research Hub on New Rationalism and Accelerationism)
Urbanomic Documents Archive
Urbit
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