Vol 2, No 3, Spring 2005
Our Spring 2005 print issue features the following five essays:
A Novel Approach to Knowing: Integrating Narrative Literature and Virtue Epistemology
By Lauren Dammon
Virtue epistemology, approached through narrative literature, has notable advantages over mainstream analytic epistemology. Narrative representations of epistemic virtues and vices, together with their outcomes, allow for rich interdisciplinary study of epistemology in a contextually-embedded form.
International Tax Reform: Oscillating Between Capital Import and Capital Export Neutrality
By Kristen Fullenkamp
The prominent defects in current U.S. international tax policy are examined with a view to exploring potential solutions framed in terms of the competing tax philosophies of capital import neutrality and capital export neutrality.
A Pharmacological Perspective on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
By Bryan Hansen
A comprehensive understanding of the pharmacological perspective of stimulant and non-stimulant drug treatment is essential to formulate a neurochemical mechanism of ADHD. Ultimately, researchers will be able to accurately diagnosis individuals with ADHD and provide them with specific treatment based on cognitive and electroencephalographic observations.
The Problem of Christian Grand Theory
By Matthew A. Kelsey
Christian thought has much more to offer to the study of history than an account of the life of Christ. Thinking carefully about the Christian view of human nature and including it as a key element of historical explanation makes possible a unique understanding of grand theory, the great movements of human history.
John Wesley's Theological Framework of Authority and the Enlightenment
By Adam Urrutia
British theologian John Wesley's sermon “The Case of Reason Impartially Considered” exemplifies Wesley's framework for approaching theology, with an emphasis upon Scripture, reason, and experience. His theology represents both a reaction against and an assimilation of Enlightenment influences with respect to the three said pillars informing it.