A prudent measure given the pace of technological progress. Even if AI doesn’t turn against us in some future robot war, we ...

Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of ...

If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse two different text types within a discourse functional framework, in order to determine whether there is a ...