Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Spinoza and Education
Freedom, understanding and empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s...
Science, Culture and Society
Understanding Science in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today’s knowledge economies and knowledge societies. And yet science...
Is Science Sexist?
And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Philosophy of biology has a long and honourable history. Indeed, like most of the great intellectual achievements of the Western World, it goes back to the Greeks. However, until recently in this century, it was sadly neglected. With a few noteworthy exceptions, someone wishing to delve into the subject...
by Adrian M. Dupuis, Robin L. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Education students are continually asked to reflect upon their own philosophy of education and how it relates to their teaching practice. Philosophy of Education in Historical Perspective: Third Edition focuses on major educational philosophies that have had an impact on Western education and helps...
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Authored by an acclaimed teacher of quantum physics and philosophy, this textbook pays special attention to the aspects that many courses sweep under the carpet. Traditional courses in quantum mechanics teach students how to use the quantum formalism to make calculations. But even the best students...
Quantum Theory from First Principles
An Informational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Quantum theory is the soul of theoretical physics. It is not just a theory of specific physical systems, but rather a new framework with universal applicability. This book shows how we can reconstruct the theory from six information-theoretical principles, by rebuilding the quantum rules from the...
Education as Freedom
African American Educational Thought and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role...
by R. Tuomela
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any case, it develops a comprehensive philosophical view, one which takes science...
by Paolo Palladino
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
While the governance of human existence is organised ever-increasingly around life and its potential to proliferate beyond all limits, much critical reflection on the phenomenon is underpinned by considerations about the very negation of life, death. The challenge is to construct an alternative understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, the oretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that deals with the extent to which genetic factors influence or control patterns of behavior as well as the extent to which patterns of behavior,...
The Spread Mind
Why Consciousness and the World Are One
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we? Who are we? Is a person a body, a soul? How do we access the external world if we are nothing but brains encased in bodies?
As neuroscientists...
by Carlo Mazzucchelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Saggi - saggio (283 pagine) - Alla ricerca di senso nell’era tecnologica e digitale
È iniziato il tempo del disincanto tecnologico, della riflessione critica, della tecnoconsapevolezza. Stanchi di false notizie e inganni digitali, cosa faranno gli internauti? Si doteranno di nuovi strumenti,...
Invasive Technification
Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Technology has extended its reach to the human
body, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and
technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense
too. Technological infrastructure and the institutions of a technified society today
determine what perception...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
This book reports on the results of the third edition of the premier conference in the field of philosophy of artificial intelligence, PT-AI 2017, held on November 4 - 5, 2017 at the University of Leeds, UK. It covers: advanced knowledge on key AI concepts, including complexity, computation, creativity,...