Science and Social Progress

Women’s Careers in Academic Social Science: Progress, Pitfalls, and Plateaus

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a tenure track job, promotion to tenure, and promotion to full professor explain these facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions in science, but the gende...

Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science: Current Progress

This paper reports on the progress that has been made in the Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSeS) project at the University of Leeds. This project seeks to use e-Science techniques to develop a national demographic model and simulation of the UK population specified at the level of individuals and households. The architecture of MoSeS is presented and discussed, with particular...

Social science. Computational social science.

Science in Progress

One, a discussion of the principles and methods underlying the developmental examination of behavior, is unchanged. Part Two, an analysis of defects and deviations of development, has been expanded to include a section on congenital abnormalities in connection with low-grade amentia; the chapter on convulsive disorders has been revised, and includes additional material on epilepsy; a discussion...

Ontological Progress in Science

In the grand tradition, philosophical ontology was considered logically and epistemologically prior to scientific ontology. Like many contemporary philosophers of science, we consider this a mistake. There is a two-way traffic between philosophical and scientific ontologies; the more we learn about what there actually is, the more we learn about what can be and what must be, and vice versa. But...