Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Gerald Jones, Jeremy Hayward, Dan Cardinal
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Philosophy
First Teaching: September 2014
First Exam: June 2016
Motivate students to think philosophically with this accessible and imaginative guide for the latest specification, brought to you by the market-leading A-level publisher**.**
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by Christopher Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of...
by John Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
It is sometimes said that the philosophy of education is not a serious and coherent philosophical area of inquiry. John Wilson examines this argument, taking it as the starting point for his book. He believes that most 'philosophy of education' until now has been little more than the promotion of...
Richard Rorty
Education, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...
Philosophy in Classrooms and Beyond
New Approaches to Picture-Book Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
The contributors to this volume describe a range of programs that use picture books to teach philosophy to diverse audiences. From a pre-school program in which college students to do the teaching to a program focused on overcoming the legacy of violence and genocide in Mali in which the teachers...
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence
A Worlded Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is...
The Tensed Theory of Time
A Critical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
he present book and its companion volume The Tenseless Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time," namely, "whether a static or a dynamic conception of the world...
Structures and Norms in Science
Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most prestigious international organization in the field. In particular, it gives a coherent picture of foundational research into the various sciences, both...
The Mechanical Mind
A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming...
by David Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Educational Philosophy for a Post-secular Age reinterprets post-secular insights for educational theory by recognising that the persistence of religion in contemporary life raises new questions about the place of religion in education. Two common assumptions are critically examined: first, that the...
The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism
Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689)
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines were strongly empiricist in nature,...
Knowledge and Value
Essays in Honor of Harold N. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Harold N. Lee retired from Tulane University in June 1970. At first the event was too incredible for us to react. Harold N. Lee is a "character" in the best sense of the term. Surely he would never leave us. He was too much an institution for our institution to proceed without him. But he...
Edusemiotics
Semiotic philosophy as educational foundation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Edusemiotics addresses an emerging field of inquiry, educational semiotics, as a philosophy of and for education. Using "sign" as a unit of analysis, educational semiotics amalgamates philosophy, educational theory and semiotics. Edusemiotics draws on the intellectual legacy of such philosophers...
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Power in Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women’s lives,...