Middle Bloom is altogether dicier, more ambitious and less helpful, a theorist attempting to explain the history of English verse as the struggle of the individual strong poet against his (almost always his) predecessors.
Reporting in an upcoming issue of Nano Letters, the team notes that it "strikingly resembles" a diagram drawn by a glass theorist attempting to unravel its structure back in 1932 (inset).
When film theorists attempt to define cinematic specificity, it is to non-talkies that they turn.
Typically, rational choice theorists attempt to explain social outcomes by reference to micro-level analyses of individual behaviour, and they model individual behaviour on the assumption that people choose the course of action that is most in accord with their preferences.
Many systematic moral theorists attempt to anchor particularistic virtues such as loyalty in larger universalistic premises.
Since most anti-gay and lesbian arguments rely upon the alleged naturalness of heterosexuality, queer theorists attempt to show how these categories are themselves deeply social constructs.
While Feynman's conjecture is still unproven, complexity theorists attempt to narrow the gap between what they believe is true about quantum mechanics, namely, that it's exponentially-hard to simulate on a classical computer, and what experimentalists can currently demonstrate (e.g., Aaronson & Arkhipov 2010).
Critical Theorists attempt to fulfill potentially two desiderata at the same time: first, they want to maintain the normativity of philosophical conceptions such as truth or justice, while at the same time they want to examine the contexts in which they have developed and may best be promoted practically.
Whereas the earlier decision-making approach sought to explain the decisions of elite groups (mostly in matters of foreign policy), rational choice theorists attempted to apply their far more formal theory (which sometimes involved the use of mathematical notation) to all facets of political life.
Working in the immediate aftermath of Grice's 1967 William James lectures,[9] many theorists attempted to reduce presupposition to various combinations of entailment and implicature.
