Abstract Constitutional reform in the European Union suffers from a post-functionalist dilemma: options that are politically viable not democratically legitimate and viable. Against background of recent Conference on Future Europe involvement transnational Citizens’ Panels, this article asks whether there is any prospect overcoming dilemma organizing fundamental EU institutions both normatively...

Philosophers and metrologists have refuted the view that measurement’s epistemic privilege in scientific practice is explained by its theory neutrality. Rather, they now explicitly appeal to role theories play measurement. I formulate a challenge for this view: scientists sometimes ascribe measurements even if lack shared about their target quantity, which illustrate through case study from ear...

According to functionalism, the family internalizes and transmits society's supposed value consensus from one generation to the next, and such socialization explains morality, social order, and cultural uniformities. I present three investigations tha t challenge the concept of functionalist socialization, and propose alternative theories that may better explain observations. First, I present e...

ing,” at the Winter Conference on Learning and Behavior, Winter Park, CO, January, 2001. The research was supported by Grants MH 60157 from the National Institute of Mental Health and NS 41548 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The authors would like to thank Kyle Baumbauer and Erin Young (Kent State University) and Kevin Bolding, Anne Bopp, Adam Ferguson, Christi...

While studies that address the relationship between social media and movements generally use functionalist paradigm, critical analysis of public sphere in era distributed emphasizes importance political economy communication. Based on media, this study examined Twitter-mediated protest "Petrocaribe Challenge" relation to a possible Haiti. To end, qualitative method based discourse was used stud...

Philosophers have devoted a great deal of discussion to the question of whether an inverted spectrum thought experiment refutes functionalism. (For a review of the inverted spectrum and its many philosophical applications, see Byrne, 2004.) If Hoffman is correct the matter can be swiftly and conclusively settled, without appeal to any empirical data about color vision (or anything else). Assumi...

A wave of recent work in metaphysics seeks to undermine the anti-reductionist, functionalist consensus of the past few decades in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. That consensus apparently legitimated a focus on what systems do, without necessarily and always requiring attention to the details of how systems are constituted. The new metaphysical challenge contends that many states and ...

Science of evolution is the basic life and earth science (LES). It searches for mobilize process reasoning tow scientific poles: functionalist historical. Because it try together to reconstruct history living beings from their origins explain working biological mechanisms in this process. Therefore, studies must respect double polarization. In article, we analyzed programs studied subjects scie...