History between Reflexivity and Critique

Examining one's own : Reflexivity and critique in STS

Critique: the Relation between Religion and Sociology

The aim of this article is to re-inspect the possibility or repudiation of Sociology of Religion. This idea is done by researching the previous critiques of this branch of sociology and the criticism of these challenges. In the following discussion about each of aspects, it is tried to answer the extant uncertainties according to one of the most important expositors (H. A. Tanhaee).

An Interplay between Valency Information and Reflexivity

A language description based on a formally defined framework has many advantages: The possibility to check the inner consistency of the model as well as the possibility of comparison with other models or with pure descriptive approaches belong to its main priorities. Roland Wagner’s contribution published in the last issue of this journal – focusing (among other ideas) on the role of Czech refl...

A History and Critique of the Field

What many AI researchers do when they say they are doing AI contradicts what some AI researchers say is AI. Surveys of leading AI textbooks demonstrate a lack of a generally accepted historical record. These surveys also show AI researchers as primarily concerned with prescribing ideal mathematical behaviors into computers -accounting for 987 of 996 (or 99%) of the AI references surveyed. The m...

History and the Critique of Social Concepts

Many theorists have regarded genealogy as an important technique for social criticism. But it has been unclear how genealogy can go beyond the accomplishments of other, more mundane, critical methods. I propose a new approach to understanding the critical potential of history. I argue that theorists have been misled by the assumption that if a claim is deserving of criticism, it is because the ...