Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Rasoul Nejadmehr
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
What is the main problem of contemporary education? Rasoul Nejadmehr argues that the cardinal problem with education is that it does not have an adequate notion of truth underpinning it. Thinkers mainly tend to veer towards two poles - absolutism and relativism. While a one-sided tendency toward absolutism...
The Night Sky, Updated and Expanded Edition
Soul and Cosmos: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Stars and Planets
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Ever since Homo sapiens first looked up at the stars, we as a species have been looking for meaning in the mysteries of the night sky. Over the millennia, as our knowledge, science, and technology developed, the stories we told ourselves about the universe and our place in it developed as well. In...
Anarchism and Education
A Philosophical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Arguing that the central role of educational practice in anarchist theory and activism has been overlooked by many theorists, this examination of contemporary educational philosophy counters the assertion that anarchism reflects a naïve or overly optimistic view of human nature. By articulating the...
Exposed
Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Opening with the statement “The anthropocene is no time to set things straight,” Stacy Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow.From trans-species art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, Exposed...
The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too
The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future. As philosophers will note, this is not always the case. Christine Ross builds on current philosophical and theoretical examinations of time and applies them to the field...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts?
At this millennial point in history, questions of cynicism, despair and hope arise...
Ethics
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter...
Fashionable Nonsense
Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written...
The Force of the Virtual
Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that ‘modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs.’ The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopher’s interest in (and appeal to) ‘the exact sciences.’ In exploring the problematic relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence of racial discrimination throughout the world today, addressing issues such as racism, post-colonialism and systems of apartheid. Despite claims we live in a post-racial era, equality laws are under threat in the UK and evidence of...
Mind and Nature
Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloquent writer with a lifelong interest in the philosophical implications of the startling new scientific...
The Logical Leap
Induction in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
A groundbreaking solution to the problem of induction, based on Ayn Rand's theory of concepts.
Inspired by and expanding on a series of lectures presented by Leonard Peikoff, David Harriman presents a fascinating answer to the problem of induction-the epistemological question of how we can...
by Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the problem...
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on...