Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and...
Structures in Science
Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures An Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although there is an abundance of highly specialized monographs, learned collections and general introductions to the philosophy of science, only a few 25 years. synthetic monographs and advanced textbooks have appeared in the last The philosophy of science seems to have lost its self-confidence....
Macroeconomic Aspects of Aging and Retirement of College and University Teachers
Indo-French Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement. It places a particular focus on the macroeconomic aspects of the ageing and retirement of college and university teachers, through a case study of teachers and professors in France and India. While the ageing of the...
by Sara Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines Ruskin's varied roles in education, the development of his teaching philosophy and style, and his vision for educational reform. Atwood maintains that the letters of Fors Clavigera constitute...
The Educational Philosophy of Elijah Muhammad
Education for a New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This work is the first to examine the educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad, the patriarch of the Nation of Islam and a pivotal leader in America's history. This timely book outlines Elijah Muhammad's educational ideas in relation to critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and critical white...
Philosophy of Technology
The Technological Condition: An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary.
Remains the most comprehensive anthology on...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to...
by Claire Elise Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas’s larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's "Crisis of Humanism," which motivated his...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views on education. Considered an educational innovator, Russell attempted to create the perfect learning institution. Despite the failure of this practical vision, it did not stop him from continuing to strive towards inventing and arguing for a system...
Environmental Ethics
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Environmental Ethics offers an up-to-date and balanced overview of environmental ethics, focusing on theory and practice. Written in clear and engaging prose, the book provides an historical perspective on the relationship between humans and nature and explores the limitations and possibilities of...
by Dr Marion O'Donnell, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Maria Montessori's work and thinking form a unique legacy to current educational thinking and practice. In this text, Marion O'Donnell explores the key themes of her philosophy of education and explores the relevance of Montessori practices today.
In a thorough survey and synthesis of Montessori's...
Genetics and Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz show how the concept of the gene has...
Levinas and Education
At the Intersection of Faith and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics,...
John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education
An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
John Dewey is considered not only as one of the founders of pragmatism, but also as an educational classic whose approaches to education and learning still exercise great influence on current discourses and practices internationally. In this book, the authors first provide an introduction to Dewey's...