Towards a Comprehensive Positivist Theory of Legal Obligation

Towards a Post-positivist Typology of Planning Theory

The post-positivist domination of planning theory in recent years has rightly highlighted the social and political context of theories. Its impact through various guises including collaborative, postmodern and neo-pragmatic approaches has been significant. However, one area that has been immune to these broad changes and interpretations is typologies of planning. Typologies provide heuristics f...

Towards a More Comprehensive Theory of Learning in Computers

Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Dissociation and Mental Health

In pursuit of the impressive goal to “reformulate our psychological theory” to account for dissociative processes in mental health, Elizabeth F. Howell embarks on a comprehensive review of historical and contemporary theories of dissociation. Structurally, the first third of The Dissociative Mind lays out four traditions or approaches to dissociation: Janetian, attachment/relational, Sternian, ...

Intrinsic Value: Towards A Pragmatic Theory

Intrinsic value is a concept central to the environmentalist movement. Whether one believes that natural objects have intrinsic value is supposed to determine whether one takes a ecocentric or homocentric approach to environmentalism, whether we practice deep or (merely) shallow ecology.  Yet this concept is also a center of controversy and confusion.  Just what does it mean for something to ha...

Transgender Marriage and the Legal Obligation to Disclose Gender History

Section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 as amended by the Gender Recognition Act 2004 requires transgender people to disclose their ‘gender history’ to the other party to a marriage prior to the marriage ceremony.Failure to do so enables the other party to exit the relationship through nullity proceedings.This article argues that this provision is discriminatory and encroaches on the righ...