social and political culture can be conceived as a trend consisting of ethical rules as its stractur, scientific thought as its process and dynamic knowledge of facts as its agenda elhical rules are intedecd to solve structural problems, scientific that is aimed at gaining knowledge corresponding with the facts, and the agenenda is not affaring truth but reliable and dynamic knowledge of the fa...

that he beautifully develops earlier in the work. More work on the functional consequences would allow him to fill in even more gaps in the literature. Even with these omissions, however, Cuff provides a valuable and nuanced view of the factors that influenced stature for these men in the antebellum period, and he also devises, very cleverly, a way around a troubling and persistent problem in t...

This paper defends a social functionalist interpretation, modeled on psychological functionalism, of the meanings of social facts. Social functionalism provides a better explanation of the possibility of interpreting other cultures than approaches that identify the meanings of social facts with either mental states or behavior. I support this claim through a functionalist reinterpretation of so...

It is common to note that social environment and cultural formation shape mental disorders. The details of this claim are, however, not well understood. The paper takes a look at the claim that culture has an impact on psychiatry from the perspective of metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Its aim is to offer, in a general fashion, partial explications of some significant versions of the ...

This paper discusses how stylized facts derived from bibliometric studies can be used to build social simulation models of science. Based on a list of six stylized facts of science it illustrates how they can be brought into play to consolidate and direct research. Moreover, it discusses challenges such a stylized facts based approach of modeling science has to solve.