Perry, in this lucid, deep, and entertaining book (based on his 1999 Jean Nicod lectures), supposes that type-identity physicalism is antecedently plausible, and that rejecting this thesis requires good reason (this is " antecedent physicalism "). He aims to show that experience gap arguments, as given by Jackson (the knowledge argument), Kripke (the modal argument), and Chalmers (the zombie ar...

David Braddon-Mitchell’s and Frank Jackson’s Philosophy of mind and cognition is written as an introductory textbook. Philosophy, of course, is not the actual study of the subject. The book, then, does not report factual data about the mind and the mind’s ability to acquire knowledge by processes like perception and reasoning, and it neither tells about specific research methods that could be u...

It is often said that many functional linguists lack a ‘theory’. Within formal linguistics, it is common to talk of different ‘theories’, such as Government-Binding Theory or Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. When formal linguists look at the work of functional linguists like Givón (1984, 1990, 1995), they do not see a ‘theory’ in the sense of formal theories like Government-Binding Theory,...

The text examines the application of operational knowledge from biological systems in project practice. It distinguishes between biotechnical methodologies, which adapt structures and functions natural to technological systems, biomorphic draw inspiration nature for aesthetic formal design evolution. concept "Symbiotic Design" is introduced identify symbiotic processes biology apply them integr...

Living sociology refers to the life of sociology, seen as a field competing scientific research programs. The dynamism each program requires, on one hand, engaging internal contradictions and external anomalies and, other extended dialogue among programs themselves. also sociologists they participate in society study. My understanding these two dimensions reflexive science—the hermeneutic—devel...