Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Gaston Bachelard
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary, Henri Bergson. The work is motivated by a refutation of Bergson’s notion of duration – ‘lived time’, experienced as continuous. For Bachelard, experienced time...
The Spike
How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2001
The rate at which technology is changing our world--not just on a global level like space travel and instant worldwide communications but on the level of what we choose to wear, where we live, and what we eat--is staggeringly fast and getting faster all the time. The rate of change has become so fast...
Philosophical Engineering
Toward a Philosophy of the Web
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains.
Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenology
Tackles questions such...
Studying Human Behavior
How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus nurture.” Rather than supporting one side or another or attempting to replace that dichotomy with a different framework for understanding...
by Maxine Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Special 2018 Edition
From the new Introduction by Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University:
"Maxine Greene never claimed to be a visionary thinker. But forty years later, her trepidations detailed throughout 1978's Landscapes of Learning now appear unnervingly prescient....
Cooperative Learning
The Social and Intellectual Outcomes of Learning in Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book recognizes the importance of cooperative learning, in contrast to the traditional classroom, as an effective approach to learning. Its coverage of the subject ranges across the educational spectrum, from pre-school years to university, and offers a fresh perspective on a topic that has gained...
by Ronald Woods, Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This introductory text, now in its fourth edition, is a classic in its field. It shows, first and foremost, the importance of philosophy in educational debate and as a background to any practical activity such as teaching. What is involved in the idea of educating a person or the idea of educational...
The Bad Faith in the Free Market
The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative and...
The Physics of Transfigured Light
The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Reveals the Hermetic underpinnings of modern scientific theories
• Offers a full reconsideration of the history of science from Newton to the present day as well as a Platonic-Hermetic perspective on modern technology
• Examines Hermetic resonances among the ideas of Gurdjieff, Robert...
Education
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A social basis for education; The spirit of the Waldorf school; Educational methods based on anthroposophy; The child at play; Teaching from a foundation of spiritual insight and education in the light of spiritual science; The adolescent after the fourteenth year; Science, art, religion and morality;...
The Language of Plants
Science, Philosophy, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding...
A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon...
The Evolution of Moral Progress
A Biocultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology,...
by Donna J. Haraway, Cary Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are...