Mental internalists hold that an individual’s mental features at a given time supervene upon what is in that individual’s head at that time. While many people reject mental internalism about content and justification, mental internalism is commonly accepted regarding such other mental features as rationality, emotion-types, propositional-attitude-types, moral character, and phenomenology. I con...

I-I tll, D.L., 199 1. Landscape planning: functionalism as a motivating concept from landscape ecology and human ecology. Landscape Urban Plann., 2 1: 1319. In this paper, the concept of functionalism fr--r both landscape ecology and human ecology is examined. The conceptual merger of these sciences and their application m landscape planning is explored as a basis for an ‘ecological approach’. ...

This article studies emotional divorce and the sociological factors effective on it in the city of Tehran. The statistical population of the research includes all the families residing in the city of Tehran and the sampling methodology is two-stage random and cluster sampling method. The theoretical framework of the research is a combination of the theory of structural functionalism and the the...

Fanaticism has brewed into different forms in the Nigerian context – and gravest is religious fanaticism. It taken hold of most clans, religions, ethnic groups across Nigeria. Religion always existed societies also fanaticism but level violence precipitated by this apparently unprecedented. This paper journeys beginning Nigeria its changing patterns violence. highlights root causes visible The ...

The article aims to explore and discuss specific patterns of dysfunctional destructive conflict resolution. problem is focused on seven conflicts, which consist four kinship three socio-political cases throughout 2016-–2019. study was carried out qualitatively, using the Dahrendorf structural–functionalism paradigm. Field data consists narrative text a series events based personal experience. a...

Social network analysis has been one of the most influential scientific revolutions of the past century. Its success has been due, in part, to its methodological sophistication and the emphasis it places on identifying and clearly depicting features of social structure. As such, social network analysis is often viewed in stark contrast to the structuralist paradigm that dominated the social sci...

Résumé : Le fonctionnalisme est une solution populaire au problème esprit– corps. Il a un certain nombre de versions. Nous en exposons certaines parmi les principales, en énumérant une partie de leurs caractéristiques les plus importantes ainsi que certains « bugs » qui les ont entachées. Nous présentons comment les différentes variantes sont liées. Nombreux ont été les pessimistes à propos des...

In Natural Minds, Thomas Polger joins a growing number of theorists who defend the mind-brain type-identity theory while casting doubt upon orthodox nonreductive varieties of functionalism in the philosophy of mind. Polger has written a fine book in a fast-paced style that covers a lot of ground. He discusses different kinds of multiple realizability and their support for functionalism (ch. 1),...

Play and Game are considered as the oldest cultural behaviors as the universal elements of human culture in all communities and groups. Gilan province in Iran, especially their villages, has a unique folklore especially its local games and plays. Nevertheless, it is necessary to document and analyze the immense information about the folklore in these villages before it vanishes in the sea of so...