Understanding Society

Traditional cognitive science has been largely organized around the idea of the brain as a computing device and cognitive systems as fu...

Marx had something of a theory of politics and somewhat less of a theory of government. The slogan “the capitalist state serves as the m...

Supervenience is the view that the properties of some composite entity B are wholly fixed by the properties and relations of the items ...

Suppose we are willing to take seriously the idea that organizations possess a kind of intentionality -- beliefs, goals, and purposive a...

image: Bruegel, The Dutch Proverbs (1559) When philosophers of the social sciences take seriously the importance of individual acti...

Where do new ideas, new technologies, and new ways of thinking about the world come from in a modern society? Since World War II the...

We often speak of government as if it has intentions, beliefs, fears, plans, and phobias. This sounds a lot like a mind. But this impres...

When we discuss the ontology of various aspects of the social world, we are often thinking of such things as institutions, organizations,...

Since the beginning of the industrial age the topic of regulation of private activity for the public good has been essential for the he...

One of the most interesting authorities on social models and simulations is Scott Page. This month he published a major book on this top...