This is the second, revised, version of a section-by-section discussion of Charles Parsons’s eagerly awaited Mathematical Thought and Its Objects (CUP, 2008: pp. xx + 378)1 – though not every section gets the same level of attention. For convenience, the divisions here correspond to the chapter/section divisions of the book. Parsons himself says that his book has been a very long time in the wr...

social differentiation is among the important concepts in sociology. the importance of the concept may be understood from its frequent recurrence in the works of the early sociologists including spencer, durkheim, weber and marx, as well as in the works of later sociologists such as parsons, smelser and luhmann. the idea of segregation is mainly discussed as a key concept in the theories of soc...

4 5 6 Sean P Parsons and Jan D Huizinga 7 8 Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University 9 10 11 12 Corresponding Author 13 Sean Parsons 14 Farncombe Institute, 15 McMaster University, 16 1200 Main Street West, 17 HSC 3N5C-H, 18 Hamilton, 19 Ontario L8N 3Z5, 20 Canada. 21 tel: 905 525 9140 x22584 22 fax: 905 522 3454 23 [email protected] 24 25 Articles in PresS. Am...

A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical density-functional theory. Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different Ansätze and the intermolecular interaction is incorporated using two different direct correlation functions (DCF's). The first is a numerical DCF obtained from si...