Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Philosophical Papers 1913–1946
With a Bibliography of Neurath in English
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The philosophical writings of Otto Neurath, and their central themes, have been described many times, by Carnap in his authobiographical essay, by Ayer and Morris and Kraft decades ago, by Haller and Hegselmann and Nemeth and others in recent years. How extraordinary Neurath's insights were, even...
Philosophical Perspectives on Moral and Civic Education
Shaping Citizens and Their Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Many people place great stock in the importance of civic virtue to the success of democratic communities. Is this hope well-grounded? The fundamental question is whether it is even possible to cultivate ethical and civic virtues in the first place. Taking for granted that it is possible, at least...
by D.W. Hamlyn
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume examines some of the arguments that have been put forward over the years to explain the way in which understanding is acquired. The author looks firstly at the empricist thesis of genesis without structure, and secondly at the opposing theory, represented by Chomsky of structure without...
Mathematics Education and Language
Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
`Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has been dominated by analyses that emphasise the importance of language in understanding societies and individuals functioning within them; important developments which have been under-utilised by researchers in mathematics education. This...
by John Kleinig
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The philosophy of education is an important component of most education courses. The subject is often split into two traditions, one emphasising the use of analytic philosophy, the other engaging in radical social criticism. This book, first published in 1982, brings together the strengths of both...
Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
An account of recent works
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
This volume, The Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, is the first attempt to present to a general audience, works from Brazil on this subject. The included papers are original, covering a remarkable number of relevant topics of philosophy of science, logic and on...
Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason
Logos and Life Book 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise. This is the crucial, intrinsically motivated device of logoic constructivism. This key instrument...
Information and the World Stage
From Philosophy to Science, the World of Forms and Communications
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion which is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton.
The author presents an overview of the place of information and communications...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization in the life sciences. As Aristotle observed so long ago, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. However, contemporary science is dominated by reductionist concepts and tends to neglect the non-reproducible features of complex...
Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences
Phenomenology in a Foundational Dialogue with the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. Established as an affiliate society of the World Institute for Ad vanced Phenomenological Research and Learning in 1976, in Arezzo, Italy,...
by Norman J. Bull
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Originally published in 1969 this book analyzes the development of moral judgement in children and adolescents. Interviews were held with 360 children aged 7 to 17, with equal numbers of either sex. Original visual devices were planned to elicit judgements in moral areas known to be of universal significance,...
by Mr John L. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
100 Ideas: QUICK - EASY - INSPIRED - OUTSTANDING
How do you teach a subject that has no 'right' answers? Philosophical and ethical concepts can be overwhelming to students who have not encountered them before, and complex arguments can be difficult to navigate. John L. Taylor's brand new book...
A Philosophy of Schooling
Care and Curiosity in Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book provides an optimistic account of the value and role of schooling. Schooling is a common but not universal approach to education and has need of its own distinctive justification, in contrast to other approaches such as home-based or work-based education. The book tackles and rejects the...
by Norman J. Bull
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
A companion volume to Moral Judgement from Childhood to Adolescence specially written for teachers and students of education. This volume includes analysis of the broad stages in the developmental pattern; of the key variables that must shape it, and of their function in moral judgement; and of the...