THREE THEORIES OF HUMAN NATURE

Theories of Nature and the Nature of Theories

On the Nature of Human Nature: Comparing Formal and Informal Theories of Personality

The present study assessed university students’ views on human nature according to a standard set of theoretical dimensions, namely free will vs. determinism, causality vs. teleology, uniqueness vs. similarity, conscious vs. unconscious, pessimism vs. optimism, and biological vs. social influences. Based on the responses from 618 introductory and personality psychology students, results showed ...

Conceptual Links between Three Theories of Information Behavior

Background and Aim: There seems to be a conceptual link between some theories of human information behavior. These links exist because some of these theories have been derived from same theories in similar fields or have a same approach in theorizing. Method: In this paper 3 theories of information behavior (information poverty, information overload and social capital) have been discussed and c...

The Nature and Structure of Scientific Theories

Reading Nature: The Interpretation of Scientific Theories

(Draft: Please do not cite or quote without permission. Comments welcome.) 1. On the one hand, I think it is fair to say that philosophers recognize a special problem or question about how we are to " interpret " scientific theories only in light of their concerns about whether we are really entitled to believe what those theories say when they are interpreted in what we see as the most natural...