Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Gareth Southwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Science first began as a branch of philosophy, but it has since grown up and moved out of the family home, and its successes have put its parent in the shade. Thanks to scientific knowledge we have walked on the Moon, cured once-fatal illnesses, and even identified the very building blocks of life...
Diploma of Whiteness
Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition....
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
The Social Functions of the Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion...
Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences
Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general....
Rationis Defensor
Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and...
The Philosophy of Physical Education
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The discipline area of physical education has historically struggled for legitimacy, sometimes being seen as a non-serious pursuit in educational terms compared to other subjects within the school curriculum. This book represents the first attempt in nearly thirty years to offer a coherent philosophical...
Transhumanism
Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous...
EPSA15 Selected Papers
The 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers presented at the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15), covering a broad variety of topics within general philosophy of science,...
Atoms, Bytes and Genes
Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
"Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to challenge these developments in public opinion. This book traces historical debates over atoms, bytes...
AQA A-level Philosophy Year 1 and AS
Epistemology and Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Philosophy
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2017
Enable students to critically engage with the new 2017 AQA specifications with this accessible Student Book that covers the key concepts and philosophical arguments, offers stimulating...
by Jem Amber Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
I am well-educated possessing numerous post-graduate and other degrees, certificates, and diplomas. I first achieved my Bachelor of Arts in 1989 with then majoring in Sociology and Education. I studied other subjects too including psychology and philosophy. In all honesty I did not do well at Sociology...
Juárez Girls Rising
Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on conceptualizing...