Abstract We explore the significance of physical theories set in Euclidean spacetimes (i.e., with Riemannian rather than pseudo-Riemannian metrical structure). In particular, we (a) use these contemporary physics at large, and (b) sense which there can be a notion temporal evolution theories. Having achieved tasks, proceed to reflect on lessons that one take from such for Knox’s ‘inertial frame...

In recent years, much of the hope for the basic project of materialism, that of explaining mentality in purely physical terms, has been vested in materialist varieties of functionalism (Kim 1998, 73). 1 Instead of identifying mentality with either behavior or brain states as the failed approaches of behaviorism and physicalism do, functionalism identifies mental states as “consisting of a dispo...

I motivate and defend a previously underdeveloped functionalist account of the metaphysics color, view that call ‘quality-space functionalism’ about color. Although other theorists have proposed varieties color functionalism, this differs from such accounts insofar as it identifies individuates colors by their relative locations within particular kind so-called ‘quality space’ reflects creature...

The study analyses of the “degree of association” between the satisfaction expressed by the parental figures and the family structure they belong to: Family nuclear, single-parent, binuclear and complex families. In the transversal investigation, 631 mothers and fathers from the middle and upper-middle socio-cultural class took part. The identification of the family structures was undertaken by...

This paper reports a case of the successful application of sociologic theories in the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. We argue in favour of a rather deep conceptual transfer of sociologic models: it is shown how analytical theories from the school of structural functionalism, aimed at explaining observed phenomena in human societies, can be put “upside down”, so as to come up with ...

The independence problems for functionalism stem from the worry that functional properties that are defined in terms of their causes and effects are not sufficiently independent of those purported causes and effects. I distinguish three different ways the independence problems can be filled out—in terms of necessary connections, conceptual connections and vacuous explanations. I argue that none...