Brand became involved in Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee ( the first public homosexual rights organization ), until there was a split in 1903 ; that same year Brand led the formation of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen organisation with the scientist Benedict Friedlaender as principal theorist, and Wilhelm Jansen.

Walter Hamor Piston Jr., ( January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976 ), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter.

Libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard argues that " the very existence of a natural law discoverable by reason is a potentially powerful threat to the status quo and a standing reproach to the reign of blindly traditional custom or the arbitrary will of the State apparatus.

Historian and theorist Bryan Palmer argues that gender studies current reliance on post-structuralism — with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance — obscures the origins, meanings, and consequences of historical events and processes, and he seeks to counter the current gender studies with an argument for the necessity to analyze lived experience and the structures of subordination and power.

Film theorist Vivian Sobchack argues that science fiction films differ from fantasy films in that while science fiction film seeks to achieve our belief in the images we are viewing, fantasy film instead attempts to suspend our disbelief.

The conflict theorist argues that this relationship is unequal and favors the owners.

This concept was called a “ Metaphysical principle ” by Fétis, though Dahlhaus argues that the term is used in this case to denote an anthropological, culturally relative sense in his 1990 book Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality, and theorist Rosalie Schellhous posits that the Kantian term “ transcendental ” might be more appropriate.

Game theorist and mathematician Robert Aumann argues that two people with common prior probability cannot agree to disagree.

" Film theorist Robert Stam also argues that " art film " is a film genre.

For instance, Queer theorist Christopher Looby argues that Fiedler's claims were noticeably given from a 20th century, urban perspective and did not adequately address the time period in which Huckleberry Finn was written.

Probably the most famous neoliberal IR theorist Robert Keohane argues that international regimes can increase probability of cooperation by:

Australian political theorist Robert E. Goodin argues that the problem with dog-whistling is that it undermines democracy, because if voters have different understandings of what they were supporting during a campaign, the fact that they were seeming to support the same thing is " democratically meaningless " and does not give the dog-whistler a policy mandate.

" Leslie McCall, a leading intersectionality theorist, argues that the introduction of the intersectionality theory was vital to sociology, claiming that before its development, there was little research in existence that addressed specifically the experiences of people who are subjected to multiple forms of subordination within society.

Anarchist theorist Murray Rothbard argued that all government services, including defense, are inefficient because they lack a market-based pricing mechanism regulated by the voluntary decisions of consumers purchasing services that fulfill their highest-priority needs and by investors seeking the most profitable enterprises to invest in.

David D. Friedman says he is not an absolutist rights theorist but is also " not a utilitarian ", however, he does believe that " utilitarian arguments are usually the best way to defend libertarian views ".

Scholar and music theorist Isidore of Seville, writing in the early 7th century, considered that " unless sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down.

They are, in my opinion, the most outstanding figures ( among the youngest ones ), and the following must be borne in mind about them: Bukharin is not only a most valuable and major theorist of the Party ; he is also rightly considered the favourite of the whole Party, but his theoretical views can be classified as fully Marxist only with great reserve, for there is something scholastic about him ( he has never made a study of the dialectics, and, I think, never fully understood it )...

As a political theorist, he believed in separation of powers and proposed a comprehensive set of checks and balances that are necessary to protect the rights of an individual from the tyranny of the majority.

* Marshall McLuhan was a media theorist whose discoveries are important to the study of rhetoric.

The indiscernibility argument from the substance theorist targets those bundle theorists who are also metaphysical realists.

Since bundle theory states that all concrete particulars are merely constructions or ' bundles ' of attributes, or qualitive properties, the substance theorist's indiscernibility argument claims that the ability to recognize numerically different concrete particulars, such as concrete objects, requires those particulars to have discernible qualitative differences in their attributes and that the metaphysical realist who is also a bundle theorist must therefore concede to the existence of ' discernible ( numerically different ) concrete particulars ', the ' identity of indiscernibles ', and a ' principle of constituent identity '.

Heavily influenced by Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, a Greek neo-Marxist theorist argued that capitalist states do not always act on behalf of the ruling class, and when they do, it is not necessarily the case because state officials consciously strive to do so, but because the ' structural ' position of the state is configured in such a way to ensure that the long-term interests of capital are always dominant.

"(...) Aristotle sounds much more like a genuine correspondence theorist in the Categories ( 12b11, 14b14 ), where he talks of " underlying things " that make statements true and implies that these " things " ( pragmata ) are logically structured situations or facts ( viz., his sitting, his not sitting ).

However, recent work by philosopher and critical theorist Nikolas Kompridis tries to show that Heidegger's insights into world disclosure are badly misunderstood and mishandled by Habermas, and are of vital importance for critical theory, offering an important way of renewing that tradition.

Composers are routinely trained in the " Palestrina style " to this day, especially as codified by the 18c music theorist Johann Joseph Fux.

So, the bundle theorist is not denying that objects exist ; he or she is affirming that objects are the same as bundles of properties.

Several of her works, including The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and Surfacing, are examples of what postmodern literary theorist Linda Hutcheon calls “ Historiographic Metafiction ”.

Rationality theorist Jesús Mosterín makes a parallel distinction between theoretical and practical rationality, although, according to him, reason and rationality are not the same: reason would be a psychological faculty, whereas rationality is an optimizing strategy.

Among the better-known graduates are screenwriters for the television show Friends David Crane and Marta Kauffman, political activists Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis, journalist Thomas Friedman, Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, physicist Edward Witten, novelist Ha Jin, political theorist Michael Walzer, actress Debra Messing, philosopher Michael Sandel, Olympic Silver Medalist fencer Timothy Morehouse, social and psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow, and author Mitch Albom.

Among the distinguished faculty, present and past, are composers David Rakowski and Leonard Bernstein, social theorist Herbert Marcuse, psychologist Abraham Maslow, human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt, Anita Hill, historian David Hackett Fischer, economist Thomas Sowell, diplomat Dennis Ross, children's author Margret Rey, sociologist Morrie Schwartz, and poet Adrienne Rich.

Twentieth century American psychological theorist David McClelland suggested worldly asceticism is specifically targeted against worldly pleasures that " distract " people from their calling and may accept worldly pleasures that are not distracting.

Postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak applies this word to ' master words ' that claim to represent a group — e. g., women or the proletariat — when there are no ' true ' examples of ' woman ' or ' proletarian '.

Cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah criticised DuBois for this definition of racialism in ' My Father's House ' ( 1992 ) where he defines racialism as "... the view … that there are heritable characteristics, possessed by members of our species, which allow us to divide them into a small set of races, in such a way that all the members of these races share certain traits and tendencies with each other that they do not share with members of any other race.

As a prominent and respected literary theorist, Fish is best known for his analysis of interpretive communities — an offshoot of reader-response criticism.

Other members included theorist Raoul Vaneigem, the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, the Italo-Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the English artist Ralph Rumney ( sole member of the London Psychogeographical Association, Rumney suffered expulsion relatively soon after the formation ), the Danish artist Asger Jorn ( who after parting with the SI also founded the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ), the architect and veteran of the Hungarian Uprising Attila Kotanyi, and the French writer Michele Bernstein.

Ezzedine Salim, (), also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed ( 1943-17 May 2004, عبدالزهرة عثمان محمد ), was an Iraqi politician, author, educator, Islamist theorist and one of the leading members of the Iraqi Dawaa Movement between 1980 and 2004.

The media connections of some of BHHRG members ( especially John Laughland, a self-avowed conspiracy theorist and passionate advocate of " national sovereignty ") has enabled it to propagate its views through a number of major newspapers in Britain and the US.

The Provid members were: Generals Kurmanovych and Kapustiansky ( both generals from the times of Ukraine's revolution in 1918-1920 ); Yaroslav Baranovsky, a law student ; Dmytro Andriievsky, a politically moderate former diplomat of the revolutionary government from eastern Ukraine ; Richard Yary, a former officer of the Austrian and Galician militaries who served as a liaison with the German Abwehr ; colonel Roman Sushko, another former Austrian and Galician officer ; Mykola Stsyborsky, the son of a tsarist military officer from Zhytomir, who served as the OUN's official theorist ; and Omelian Senyk, a party organizer and veteran of the Austrian and Galician armies who by the 1940s was considered too moderate and too conservative by the youngest generation of Galician youths.

Former faculty members have included John Meisel who pioneered voting studies in Canada, former Queen's principal Ronald Lampman Watts an expert in federalism, development theorist Colin Leys, and Canadian politics / parliamentary expert Ned Franks.

Though the status of Blair's theories declined in the 19th century, his role as the first great theorist of written discourse cannot be denied.

This conclusion was explicitly ( and notoriously ) drawn by early modern political theorist Hugo Grotius: " What we have been saying the natural law would have a degree of validity even if we should concede that which cannot be conceded without the utmost wickedness, that there is no God, or that the affairs of men are of no concern to him " On such a view, God is no longer a " law-giver " but at most a " law-transmitter " who plays no vital role in the foundations of morality.

The work of the two cannot be separated in the least, although a clear division of labour is observable, with Jogiches the organiser and Luxemburg the theorist.

The political theorist Daniel Elazar has suggested that " chesed " cannot easily be translated into English, but that it means something like " loving covenant obligation.

Geoffrey H. Hartman ( born 1929 ) is a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, but also has written on a wide range of subjects, and cannot be categorized by a single school or method.