Causal theory of reference

at the time (AAUW, 1). But, as time progressed, in 2007 the number of high school women participating in sports was just over 3 million and men were around 4.3 million. According to the website, this trend was also shown in college athletics in reference to the respective time period mentioned above. With these facts stated, showing how so many women are participating in sports, how come women are not being represented and portrayed in the media in the same fashion as men? For my research…

Understanding virtue ethics theories begins with understanding the concept of the ideal character traits a virtuous and ethical person has according to Aristotle’s Ethical Theory. I will argue that virtue ethics relies on the actions of a person in adhering to their duty as a part of society’s moral expectations. Louden argues that a contemporary analysis is necessary while holding a more pragmatic application about Aristotle’s view of practical wisdom as the standard of a person’s virtue ethics…

This view seems to presuppose that causation must involve spatial relations and physicality. Why should this picture of causation be favoured? It is an explicit component of the dualist theory that it would be incoherent to think of consciousness and thought, which both lack extension and a spatial location, as existing within material substance which, by definition, is extended in space (43). It seems just as incoherent to think of minds…

and ideas, without losing [their] identity” (x). Despite all of this information, Hume still proved himself as a genuine philosopher by declaring that personal identity can never be undoubtedly proven, because there must be a judgment between the causal relationship of identity and the relation of ideas, which he did not…

1. Jean Hampton (1992) argues that instrumental conceptions of reason are “inescapably normative” (p.347). What this means is that theories that rely on instrumental conceptions of reason cannot escape from the normativity that exists in desires. Normativity in this case can refer to the concept of an “ideal” (p.344) human. The idea human is something that can be used to base our conceptions of good, bad, or irrational actions on. On one hand, A Hobbesian would suggest that “we ought to act…

and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiological Follow-up Study. According to Lambiase et al. (2015), the history of stroke and coronary heart disease was self-reported, creating a possible bias. The observational design does allow determination of causal effect and the data should have been more current.…

used for stealing that became a workplace norm. As a result, many nurses conformed to these norms to fit into the group. This type of behavior seemed to be a common industry practice. Differential association theory can be used to help explain their behavior (Sutherland, 2014). Since this theory focuses on how deviant behavior is learned through the interaction with others. These participants would imitate the same deviant behavior they learned from their colleagues. When a person sees people…

Introduction This paper discusses Social Brain Hypothesis (SBH) by referring to the book “Lone Survivors How we came to be the only humans on Earth” by Chris Stringer and Evolution in the Social Brain by R. I. M. Dunbar and Susanne Shultz. Primates have a large brain to body size ratio as compared to their non-primate counterparts. Scientists have tried to explain this trait using various ecological, evolutionary, sexual context. On the other hand, the SBH attributes this primate characteristic…

These factors represent as the main reasons responsible for the folk theories of intention. One of these models we use is called the belief-desire model. This model of psychology demonstrates one method in which folk psychology is being used in everyday life. We can assume people will execute an action if they want a certain…

Although the majority of the afflicted during the Salem Witch Trials were women, some historians believe that the men of the village were the true driving force behind the trials. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum are two such people, and in their book Salem Possessed: The Social Origins Of Witchcraft, they write about their discoveries concerning the long standing economic and political issues underlying the trials in Salem. Within their work, they split the citizens of Salem into two separate…