Could machines think? Yes, in a sense, they do already. Impressively. But could machines experience and feel? Only God knows.

Watching the usual gibbering about political theory slide past our screens is disspiriting because to live in a dying society is bad enough, but to live in one where everyone has gone insane and will ...

In this article, we argue that conventional understandings of regional integration based on neo-functionalism, hitherto often used to describe the diverse projects of Latin American regionalism, are ...

Scared of artificial intelligence? Greg Heffley, the comic hero of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, has some good advice: “I’ve actually been preparing for when the robots take over by sucking up to the ...

Abstract: Objective To explore the design ideas contained in humanistic functionalism, explore the new path of children's toy packaging design from the perspective of humanistic functionalism, and ...

The political reception of Niklas Luhmann in the English-speaking world is still localized. His death in 1998 triggered a wider general interest in his work, and its susceptibility to reception in ...

The resignation of a Pope, of any Pope, in my opinion, cannot be considered an option. One does not step down from the Cross, exactly as the scriptures indicate. From a long shelf full of books, ...

Teaching social theory is just plain fun. For me, it’s an opportunity to see our world in a multidimensional way. Who needs a comic book multiverse when you can look at social phenomena through ...