Today, natural law theory offers the most common intellectual defense for the differential treatment of gays and lesbians. Leading natural law theorists, such as John Finnis,2 Robert George,3 and Richard Duncan,4 have eagerly inserted themselves into debates about law and sexuality. If their arguments are sound, it is permissible to treat gays and lesbians differentially as a matter of law. Nat...

Abstract Cognitive theorists routinely disagree about the evidence supporting claims in cognitive science. Here, we first argue that some disagreements science are available to be drawn upon by theorists. Then, show one’s explanation of why this kind disagreement obtains will cohere with theory evidence. We best for way is because their what they rationally grant . Finally, explain our view doe...

Among the many challenges that Smith (forthcoming) details, one that stands out is that theory and experiments face an incompatibility in the following sense. Theorists propose models which implicitly assume that the situation being modeled is divorced from everything else the individual might encounter, either in the past or in the future. In essence, when they describe the game they preclude ...

Abstract Existing theories of individual trade preferences do not satisfactorily explain how security concerns should affect American support for the US–China war that began in 2018. Although existing public attitudes toward international trade—economic self-interest, sociotropism, partisanship, reciprocity, and xenophobia—all help to initial war, these hypotheses adequately citizen context an ...

Remembering Past Lessons about Structural Racism Though the mounting resolve to address structural racism in U.S. medicine and public health is welcome, theory empirical grounding for this ...

The authors demonstrate that people differ systematically in their implicit theories of emotion: Some view emotions as fixed (entity theorists), whereas others view emotions as more malleable (incremental theorists). Using a longitudinal and multimethod design, the authors show that implicit theories of emotion, as distinct from intelligence, are linked to both emotional and social adjustment d...

The purpose of this article is to introduce our notion of epistemic space and to demonstrate its utility for understanding the origins and trajectories of nursing theory in the 20th century using multidimensional scaling (MDS). A literature review was conducted on primary and secondary sources written by and about 20 nurse theorists to investigate whether or not they cited 129 different scholar...