The present study is an attempt to problematize the multivalent data in the cyberspace through the lenses of Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy of language. Adopting this linguistic philosophy approach is aimed at exploring the dichotomous question of whether cyberspace is a possibility for social power or it is a contributory cause of communicative discontinuity and henceforth a possibility fo...

For the past two decades, the postmodern debates dominated the cultural and intellectual scene in many fields throughout the world. In aesthetic and cultural theory, polemics emerged over whether modernism in the arts was or was not dead and what sort of postmodern art was succeeding it. In philosophy, debates erupted concerning whether or not the tradition of modern philosophy had ended, and m...

1 The last clause is important. If we have little confidence in our model of the economy, or political economy, the value of an extension of any normative statement relative to that economy to a concrete existing economy is considerably devalued. 2 This framing of the issues directly contradicts the claims made for the new research on the political economy of policy reform in Rodrik (1993). I h...

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Doctor of Philosophy SOCIAL NICHE CONSTRUCTION: EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATIONS FOR COOPERATIVE GROUP FORMATION

Identifying “influential spreader” is finding a subset of individuals in the social network, so that when information injected into this subset, it is spread most broadly to the rest of the network individuals. The determination of the information influence degree of individual plays an important role in online social networking. Once there is a list of individuals who have high influence, the ...

Concepts and technologies of information and communication are discussed in the context of political philosophy and ontology. The questions of what is the meaning and sense of “information” and “communication” in modern political philosophy and what are the roles of technologies of such are discussed in regard to two notions of power and community: constitutional and constituent. The responsibi...

This paper studies the long-run aggregate and welfare effects of eliminating Social Security in a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium life-cycle model where parents and their children are linked by voluntary and accidental bequests. Social security in this model with impure altruism has a smaller effect on capital accumulation than in a pure life-cycle model, a bigger effect than in a mode...

This article discusses the undertaking of research using a constructivist philosophical framework and ethnographic techniques, which can include individual interviews, focus groups, observation, and questionnaires. It begins with a broad overview of social sciences research philosophy, discussing both positivism and interpretivism, before moving on to focus on the constructivist paradigm, which...

1 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Johannisgasse 26, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 2 Institute for Logics and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Beethovenstrasse 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany 3 Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deut...