Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by C. Mantzavinos
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory games'. Mantzavinos provides a descriptive...
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A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This illuminating book untangles many of the...
Explanation in Biology
An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Patterns of explanation in biology have long been recognized as different from those deployed in other scientific disciplines, especially that of physics. Celebrating the diversity of interpretative models found in biology, this volume details their varying types as well as explaining their relationships...
Mapping Multiple Literacies
An Introduction to Deleuzian Literacy Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Mapping
Multiple Literacies
brings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy study
and European philosophy, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical
work of Gilles Deleuze. It frames the process of becoming literate as a fluid
process involving multiple modes...
Rupturing African Philosophy on Teaching and Learning
Ubuntu Justice and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book examines African philosophy of education and the enactment of ubuntu justice through a massive open online course on Teaching for Change. The authors argue that such pedagogic encounters have the potential to stimulate just and democratic human relations: encounters that are critical, deliberate,...
Scientific Method
The Hypothetico-Experimental Laboratory Procedure of the Physical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There remains only the obligation to thank those who have helped me with specific suggestions and the editors who have kindly granted permission to reprint material which first appeared in the pages of their journals. To the former group belong Alan B. Brinkley and Max O. Hocutt Portion of chap...
Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
John von Neumann (1903-1957) was undoubtedly one of the scientific geniuses of the 20th century. The main fields to which he contributed include various disciplines of pure and applied mathematics, mathematical and theoretical physics, logic, theoretical computer science, and computer architecture....
by Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and other...
Philosophy in the Classroom
Improving your Pupils' Thinking Skills and Motivating Them to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Ever had difficulty inspiring your children to consider and discuss philosophical concepts?
Philosophy in the Classroom helps teachers tap in to children’s natural wonder and curiosity. The practical lesson plans, built around Aesop’s fables, encourage children to formulate and express...
Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle
Science, Evidence, and Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Scholars in philosophy, law, economics and other fields have widely debated how science, environmental precaution, and economic interests should be balanced in urgent contemporary problems, such as climate change. One controversial focus of these discussions is the precautionary principle, according...
by Susann Wagenknecht
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge. At a time when most of today’s scientific knowledge is created in research groups, the author reconsiders the social character of science to address the question of whether collaboratively created knowledge...
by Jenny P. d'Héricourt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
A Woman's Philosophy of Woman or, Woman affranchised. An answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouvé, Comte, and other modern innovators written by Jenny P. d'Héricourt. Published in 1864. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival...