Pittsburgh, the Iron City, gives me the blues. Cleaner and quieter than when tall smokestacks filled its valleys with yellow-brown haze, the city now stands as a nostalgic reminder of salty politicians, tough tycoons, rough mill workers, and fixed capital. Such heavy industrial cities of another age inspired the bottom-up social history of my youth, with its reductive assignment of interests, o...

A central claim of Jones & Love’s (J&L’s) article is that Bayesian Fundamentalism is empirically unconstrained. Unless constraints are placed on prior beliefs, likelihood, and utility functions, all behaviour – it is proposed – is consistent with Bayesian rationality. Although such claims are commonplace, their basis is rarely justified. We fill this gap by sketching a proof, and we discuss pos...

The content of the concept religious fundamentalism is analyzed; peculiarities positioning and forms manifestation phenomenon in socio-cultural space modern world are considered; specifics relationship existing fundamental contradictions between fundamentalist ideas practices idea human rights ways to defend them studied. It concluded that a complex has not only purely nature but also socio-pol...