One argument for consent theory essayed by Simmons asserts that a person ought to be free to act on the basis of personal reasons as opposed to impersonal reasons.
In Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994) we learn of Glück's education as a poet as being a hodgepodge of recovery from anorexia, the Electra complex, analysis.
Janáček created his music theory works, essays and articles over a period of fifty years, from 1877 to 1927.
Free online and $5 in the MoMA shop, this volume mixes abstruse semiotics theory (an essay on the "meta-font") with personal and institutional history (an article published in The New York Times on the evolution of MoMA's logo).
After summarizing this theory, the essay turns to applications of this approach in administrative law and statutory interpretation.
Instead of adopting a formula for expected utility that uses an assessment of outcomes neutral with respect to evidential and causal decision theory, this essay follows Stalnaker (1972) in adopting a formula that uses utility to evaluate outcomes.
Rather than recording his findings about the coral reefs in his notes about the island, he wrote them up as the first full draft of his theory, an essay titled Coral Islands, dated 1835.
Now, if you're the sort of person who reads theories and essays about marketing strategies, then maybe that's something you'll already know; personally, the day I start tweeting infographics about user engagement with buzz brands is the same day I renounce my own pulse.
A dense, meandering, amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case studies, anecdotes, essays, theory, charts, graphs, photographs and drawings, it is Mr. Vollmann's attempt to bring definitive resolution to a conundrum that has preoccupied generations of thinkers: under what conditions can violence be justified?
In place of any general theory, Montaigne's essays draw from various sources to present a plethora of anecdotal accounts, showing everything from the effects emotions may have on reason and judgment, to their bodily effects, to the continuity between human and animal emotions.
