it's obvious that there is a serious and powerful bond between different branches of humanities and social sciences. sociology of law is a good example in which law and sociology make an organized ensemble. sociology of law has emerged as an independent science which is, or should be, based on empiric rationality. the discipline is neither based on metaphysics (contrary to the philosophy of law...

We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with the structure of the science of biological evolution. This latter claim is tested by outlining the methods and approaches employed by the principal subdisciplines of evolutionary biology and assessing whether there i...

Social Science Methodology is the new thoroughly rewritten version of the successful first edition (subtitled: ‘A Criterial Framework’). In the introductory chapter, Gerring introduces the reader to the issue of epistemological and methodological pluralism in the social sciences and presents his view of a unified framework, which consists of three distinct tasks associated with, respectively, h...

Jaegwon Kim has argued that if psychological kinds are multiply realizable then no single psychological theory can describe regularities ranging over psychological states. Instead, psychology must be fractured, with human psychology covering states realized in the human way, martian psychology covering states realized in the martian way, and so on. I show that even if one accepts the principles...

Current attempts to create a unified, multidisciplinary cognitive science have languished. This paper demonstrates how the human-computer interaction (HCI) paradigm can serve as a unifying framework for cognitive science. HCI has focused the research of many disciplines on the single domain of interaction design. Cognitive science, in contrast, has emphasized multidisciplinary research across a...

This Letter further investigates the synchronization of a unified chaotic system via different methods. Several sufficient theorems for the synchronization of the unified chaotic system are deduced. A scheme of secure communication based on the synchronization of the unified chaotic system is presented. Numerical simulation shows its feasibility.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.