To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

Some of Derrida’s early essays are critiques of structuralist theory. And finally, there was the influence of modernist literature, such as the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, whose poetry in French is ...

As a longtime fan of High Country News, I have depended on HCN’s insightful and balanced journalism on Western U.S. issues for many years. So I am surprised by “The Atomic Road Trip” (HCN, 5/13/19), ...

It is shown that the criteria of T-theoreticity proposed by Balzer and Gähde lead to strongly counterintuitive and in this sense 'paradoxical' results: most of the obviously empirical or at least ...

An influential view in (philosophy of) cognitive science is that computation in cognitive systems is semantic, conceptually depending on representation: to compute is to manipulate representations. I ...