Book review: Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha, Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

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Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Sociological Theory and Rational

Rational choice or action theory may be understood as one possible interpretation of Weber's program, though it must be said a rather special one in that it invites us to adopt the least complex conception of social action that we can analytically get away with in arriving at a "causal explanation of its course and effects." It thus departs from many post-Weberian (and for that matter pre-Weber...

BOOK REVIEW Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory

This collection Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory gives us the broadest perspective yet on this important realist alternative to standard quantum theory. The book treats the history, philosophical rami"cations and consistency of theories arising from Bohm's original model and their relations to other alternative theories. Signi"cantly, it also contains applications of these theories to pract...

Book Review: Stochastic Modeling: Theory and Reality

For decades, actuaries have historically used statistical and financial models that were inherently considered deterministic in the sense that random fluctuations are often ignored, although some type of sensitivity of the parameter and model assumptions have been employed to have a sense of the possible variation in the results. Today, such sensitivity analysis is unacceptably appropriate when...