Sentence examples for status theory from inspiring English sources

The revival of status theory within contemporary philosophy began with Nozick's Anarchy State and Utopia (1974).

Status theory also faces the challenge of vindicating its foundations and its scope.

It is an open question whether status theory has the conceptual resources to explain why individual rights should be shaped in these specific ways.

Status theories belong to the tradition of natural rights theories.

Both status theories and instrumental theories of rights have held a perennial attraction.

Status theories hold that human beings have attributes that make it fitting to ascribe certain rights to them, and make respect for these rights appropriate.

(Griffin 1989) Status theories are subject to the objection that they lack the conceptual resources to explain why the rights we believe in are intricately "shaped" to accommodate the particularities of different contexts and different rightholders.

Nothing in our epistemology pronounces on the status of theory from an independent standpoint; to the contrary: it presupposes the truth of our theory.

Popper was also motivated by his doubts about the scientific status of theories like the Marxist theory of history or psycho-analysis, and so wanted to draw a line of demarcation between science and pseudo-science.

Another worrying phenomenon is "sero-sorting" – when men choose partners who have the same HIV status, in theory negating the need to use a condom.

Status exchange theory theorizes that immigrants may give up their career aspirations in exchange for higher status from marriage to a native, and this is truer for immigrant women (Grossbard-Shechtman 1993; Grossbard-Shechtman and Fu 2002).