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by David Ludwig
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all entities, and will propose a pluralist alternative...
Our Universe
<Br><Br><Br><Br>A Scientific <Br>And Religious View of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Did God create life, or did the world spontaneously appear? Drawing on meticulous research into the scientific and religious realms, Our Universe is a detailed study of the origin of the universe, life on Earth, and the destiny of mankind.
Biophysics professor Faiz M. Khan combines both faith...
The Garden of Leaders
Revolutionizing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students....
Encouraging Openness
Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi called attention to rationality...
Tolerance and Dissent within Education
On Cultivating Debate and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book explores how the concept of tolerance might be understood, cultivated and enacted in and through educational encounters. It argues that by opening up educational encounters to allow for ‘dissent’ – that is, disagreement, criticism and open dialogue – our everyday social life experiences...
Measurement in Medicine
Philosophical Essays on Assessment and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of assessment and evaluation in medicine. Ranging from...
Reason and Education
Essays in Honor of Israel Scheffler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Israel Scheffler is the pre-eminent philosopher of education in the English-speaking world today. This volume collects seventeen original, invited papers on Scheffler's philosophy of education by scholars from around the world. The papers address the wide range of topics that Scheffler's work in philosophy...
by Mark Dimmock and Andrew Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Tailored to the Ethics components of AQA Philosophy and OCR Religious Studies.
What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral?
This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores...
by Kenneth Wain
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book, first published in 1987, provides a rigorous philosophical analysis of lifelong education. The author presents his arguments simply and directly so that the book is accessible to students who are new to philosophy and adult education.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
One of the perennial themes in philosophy is the problem of our access to the world around us; do our perceptual systems bring us into contact with the world as it is or does perception depend upon our individual conceptual frameworks? This volume of new essays examines reference as it relates to...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold, simultaneously, deep and opposite commitments...
Worldviews
An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Updated throughout and with three entirely new chapters, Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science, Second Edition furthers its reputation as the definitive introductory text on the historical developments and philosophical issues that inform our scientific view of the world...
Science and Hypothesis
The Complete Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Science and Hypothesis is a classic text in history and philosophy of science. Widely popular since its original publication in 1902, this first new translation of the work in over a century features unpublished material missing from earlier editions.
Addressing errors introduced by Greenstreet...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
In Spirit and Reality (1939), Nicholas Berdyaev, an Orthodox exile from communist Russia, frequently writes the word "spirit", but rarely pens the word "reality". How should I appreciate this? Here is my guess.
In Philosophy of Nature (1935), Jacques Maritain presents an argument...