Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Abduction, Reason and Science
Processes of Discovery and Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems. It lays out a useful general framework for discussion of a variety of kinds of abduction. It develops important ideas about...
Science and Relativism
Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy...
Reinventing Intercultural Education
A metaphysical manifest for rethinking cultural diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Most existing books in the fields of multicultural or intercultural education have been written based on anthropologists’ cultural dimensions, which presume culture is a fixed entity. Reinventing Intercultural Education is the first book to review multiple cultures and religions from a metaphysical...
First Freire
Early Writings in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Carlos Alberto Torres, an internationally renowned critical theorist of education, explores the early writings of Paulo Freire whose ideas have had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on the world of pedagogy and politics. Torres analyzes Freire’s works, from the 1960s and...
Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics
Essays in Honour of Heinz Post
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London. The 'Chelsea tradition' in philosophy of science takes the content of science seriously, as exemplified by the papers presented...
by Sandra C. Greer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.
This book offers the first comprehensive guide to ethics for physical scientists and engineers who conduct research. Written by a distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical engineering,...
The Nature of Classification
Relationships and Kinds in the Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.
Contemporary Perspectives on C.S. Lewis' 'The Abolition of Man'
History, Philosophy, Education, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Beginning with a clear account of the historical setting for The Abolition of Man and its place within C.S. Lewis' corpus of writing, Contemporary Perspectives on C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man: History, Philosophy, Education and Science assesses and appraises Lewis' seminal lectures, providing...
The Understanding of Nature
Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally...
Entangled Worlds
Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created....
Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation
Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
To the scientists and philosophers of our time, Hegel has been either a ne glected or a provocative thinker, a source of irrelevant dark metaphysics or of complex but insightful analysis. His influence upon the work of natural scientists has seemed minimal, in the main; and his stimulus to the nascent...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issues...
Reality’s Fugue
Reconciling Worldviews in Philosophy, Religion, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Science, religion, philosophy: these three categories of thought have organized humankind’s search for meaning from time immemorial. Reality’s Fugue presents a compelling case that these ways of understanding, often seen as competing, are part of a larger puzzle that cannot be rendered by one...