Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of ...

European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2005), pp. 213-262 (50 pages) On cherche à tester sur un cas historique ...

If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

Research indicates that discussions, debates, and studies in the 19th and 20th centuries explored personal agency and ...

A prudent measure given the pace of technological progress. Even if AI doesn’t turn against us in some future robot war, we have to face the possibility of having a future status to superintelligent ...