Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Liam Gearon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Religion has had notable and renewed prominence in contemporary public and political life. Religious questions have also been freshly examined in philosophy and theology, the natural sciences, the social sciences, psychology, phenomenology, politics and the arts. These fields reflect complex, multi-disciplinary...
by Allen Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems...
Neither Beast Nor God
The Dignity of the Human Person
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought...
Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion
Balzan Symposium 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
by the Academies of the two countries – to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning of “truth” is central to many areas of contemporary debate, whether between those subscribing to a post-Enlightenment view of the world and those who seek...
Logos and Life: The Three Movements of the Soul
The Spontaneous and the Creative in Man’s Self-Interpretation-in-the-Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
PART I THE CRITIQUE OF REASON CONTINUED: FROM LOGOS TO ANTI-LOGOS 1. THE NEW CRITIQUE OF REASON A new critique of reason is the crucial task imposed on the philosophy of our times as we emerge more and more from so-called "modernism" into a historical phase which will have to take its own...
International Science and National Scientific Identity
Australia between Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second...
Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology
Theories and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Our social, educational, professional, and political ethics play a significant role in every aspect of our life. As technology continues to influence our society, these principles needs to be valued. Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice highlights the innovations...
Practical Applications of the Philosophy of Science
Thinking about Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Explores the practical applicability of the philosophy of science to scientific research, but also considers its relevance to practice within the realms of technology, design, crafts, and even within the world of arts and the humanities. The attempt to engage working scientists with the issues raised...
Science Outside the Laboratory
Measurement in Field Science and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The conduct of most of social science occurs outside the laboratory. Such studies in field science explore phenomena that cannot for practical, technical, or ethical reasons be explored under controlled conditions. These phenomena cannot be fully isolated from their environment or investigated by...
All Talked Out
Naturalism and the Future of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in a philosopher's hands, and takes a welcome look at the resulting fate of philosophy. Based on his 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lectures, each chapter presents a novel and positive view of intellectual advancements with respect to traditional...
Philosophy and Technology II
Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Until recently, the philosophy and history of science proceeded in a separate way from the philosophy and history of technology, and indeed with respect to both science and technology, philosophical and historical inquiries were also following their separate ways. Now we see in the past quarter-century...
Thinking Through Breast Cancer
A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it. Such questions frame the difficult decisions that patients must make about their treatment and care....
Engineering Education for Social Justice
Critical Explorations and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Hoping to help transform engineering into a more socially just field of practice, this book offers various perspectives and strategies while highlighting key concepts and themes that help readers understand the complex relationship between engineering education and social justice. This volume tackles...
by G.G. Granger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
system reflected in Saussure's linguistic theory, and so influential in the great progress linguistic theory has made in this century. Indeed, Granger sees linguistic theory as expressing a paradigm for scientific theorizing, which research in other social sciences should adopt. But 'structuralism'...