Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck
Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study
Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Terrorism, ethnocentrism, religious tension, competition over limited resources, war - these are just a few of the problems and challenges that have emerged in today's global economy. Globalization both implies and requires economic interdependence; and this should bring with it a heightened sense...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume attempts to provide a new articulation of issues surrounding scientific realism, scientific rationality, the epistemology of non-classical physics, the type of revolutionary changes in the development of science, the naturalization of epistemology within frameworks of cognitive science...
by N. Geschwind
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their contents as well. Substantive issues concerning the relation between mind and matter, between the material basis and the functions of cognition, have been central within the entire history of philosophy. We recall...
A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education
The Educational Thought of Janusz Korczak
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book sheds new light on the life and work of Janusz Korczak, the twentieth century humanist moral educator and path-breaking social-pedagogue who is generally unknown in the English speaking world. In the two orphanages he led in Warsaw, Poland Korczak developed an innovative array of educational...
Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science
In Memory of Benjamin Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This selection of papers that were presented (or nearly so!) to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science during the seventies fairly re presents some of the most disturbing issues of scientific knowledge in these years. To the distant observer, it may seem that the defense of rational...
Topics in Education
The Cincinnati Lectures of 1959 on the Philosophy of Education, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1988
Bernard Lonergan devoted much of his life's work to developing a generalized method of inquiry, an integrated view which would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge in our time. In Topics in Education Lonergan adapts that concern to the practical needs of educators.
Traditionalist and modernist...
by Lawrence Sklar
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual issues and differing philosophical interpretations and throughout its long historical development,...
by Alfred North Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"One of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science which has appeared for many years." — The Cambridge Review
"A great contribution to Natur-philosophie, far the finest contribution . . . made by any one man. — Mind
In addition to his brilliant achievements...
Averroes' Physics
A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes' writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not been hitherto studied. She reveals that Averroes changed...
Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity
A Critical Exposition of Arguments for Intuitionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In 1907 Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer defended his doctoral dissertation on the foundations of mathematics and with this event the modem version of mathematical intuitionism came into being. Brouwer attacked the main currents of the philosophy of mathematics: the formalists and the Platonists. In tum,...
Derrida after the End of Writing
Political Theology and New Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
What are we to make of Jacques Derrida’s famous claim that “every other is every other,” if the other could also be an object, a stone or an elementary particle? Derrida’s philosophy is relevant not just for human ethical language and animality, but to profound developments in the physical...
The Philosophy Of Right And Left
Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands. Immanuel Kant was the first great thinker to point out the philosophical significance of such objects. He called them "counter parts" because they are similar...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Philosopher Jacques Maritain serves as a keystone in the recovery from the excesses of the Age of Ideas (as defined by John Deely, in his masterwork, Four Ages of Understanding). Maritain strives to recover Thomism during the 20th century. But, there are difficulties. The mechanical philosophers of...