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From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond
Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond: Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility, Ronald Swartz offers an evolving development of fallible, liberal democratic, self?governing educational philosophies. He suggests that educators can benefit from having dialogues about questions...
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology
On the Evolutionary History of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy of Technology is a visionary study of...
The If Machine, 2nd edition
30 Lesson Plans for Teaching Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Fully updated edition with five brand new sessions and bonus features.
Fully updated with new developments in the theory and practice of teaching philosophy, this new edition of the bestselling book, The If Machine,presents 30 clear, ready-to-use plans to teach philosophy in the classroom with...
Reflections on Human Inquiry
Science, Philosophy, and Common Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view. Human beings are endowed with cognitive agency. Our grasp of the world, and of ourselves, are not merely responses to external stimuli; they are reflective products of human inquiry. At one point...
Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics
Part Three of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic,...
The Uses of Antiquity
The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- 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 World...
The Technique of Thought
Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
The Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French...
Neurath Reconsidered
New Sources and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This highly readable book is a collection of critical papers on Otto Neurath (1882-1945). It comprehensively re-examines Neurath’s scientific, philosophical and educational contributions from a range of standpoints including historical, sociological and problem-oriented perspectives. Leading Neurath...
Beyond Domination (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 23)
An Essay in the Political Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume introduces a new conception of political education and new roles for headteachers and parents in the creation of a more democratic educational system. The book proposes curbing the power of teachers, including headteachers, stripping parents of their rights, and making political education...
Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education
Finding Space and Time for Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
On the occasion of the retirement of Paul Smeyers, this book considers the state and status of the philosophy and history of education today.
Over the last 20 years, the conditions in which research takes place have changed considerably. They have done so in ways that are often less than favourable...
Organisms and Personal Identity
Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Over his philosophical career, David Wiggins has produced a body of work that, though varied and wide-ranging, stands as a coherent and carefully integrated whole. In this book Ferner examines Wiggins’ conceptualist-realism, his sortal theory ‘D’ and his human being theory in order to assess...
Politics and Pedagogy in the "Post-Truth†? Era
Insurgent Philosophy and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Those who are in shock that truth doesn't seem to matter in politics miss the mark: politics has never corresponded with the truth. Rather, political struggle is about the formulation and materialization of new truths. The "post-truth†? era thus offers an important opportunity to push forward...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Since it may seem strange for a new series to begin with volume 3, a word of explanation is in order. The series, Philosophy and Technology, inaugurated in this form with this volume, is the official publication of the Society for Philosophy & Technology. Approximately one volume each year is...
by F. Rapp
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Friedrich Rapp, in this magisterial and critical essay on technology, the complex human phenomenon that demands philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, moral insight, and historical sensi tivity for its understanding, writes modestly of the grave and ten tative situation in the philosophy...