While the predicate view of proper names is popular among linguists, it not unanimous. This paper contributes to discussion by considering some linguistic data exemplified phrases such as “Operation Valkyrie” and Desert Storm”. These examples bring clues about structure phrasesthat help us understand procedure involved in naming individuals. One gap between first constituent (“operation”) secon...

OBJECTIVES Patients' religious communities often influence their medical decisions. To date, no study has examined what physicians think about the responsibilities borne by religious communities to provide guidance to patients in different clinical contexts. METHODS We mailed a confidential, self-administered survey to a stratified random sample of 1504 US primary care physicians (PCPs). Crit...

Abstract There are some names which cannot be spoken and others written, at least on certain very natural ways of conceiving them. Interestingly, this observation proves to in tension with a wide range views about what are. Prima facie , looks like problem for predicativists. Ultima it turns out equally problematic Millians. For either sort theorist, resolving requires embracing revisionary acc...

This article examines whether shared religious beliefs and religious social relationships (Durkheim) and belief in a personal, moral God (Stark) negatively affect attitudes toward the acceptability of white-collar crime. In addition, using a large cross-national sample and estimating multilevel models, we test whether effects are conditional on modernization and religious contexts characterized...

Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. To test this hypothesis we design field experiments to measure the in-group cooperative behavior of members of religious and secular Israeli kib...

Prior research has found that persons who favor more analytic modes of thought are less religious. We propose that individual differences in analytic thought are associated with reduced religious beliefs particularly when analytic thought is measured (hence, primed) first. The current study provides a direct replication of prior evidence that individual differences in analytic thinking are nega...