Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Erik Weber, Jeroen Van Bouwel, Leen De Vreese
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
When scientist investigate why things happen, they aim at giving an explanation. But what does a scientific explanation look like? In the first chapter (Theories of Scientific Explanation) of this book, the milestones in the debate on how to characterize scientific explanations are exposed. The...
Before it’s Too Late
A Scientist’s Case for Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I was not invited to write a foreword for this book. Dr. Cohen, knowing my busy schedule, would have considered such a request to be an imposition. I volunteered to do so in part to acknowledge my gratitude to him for having been a constant source of reference materials as I have turned my attention...
Science under Scrutiny
The Place of History and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recognized - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this broad area of inquiry found their base,...
The Conditions for School Success
Examining Educational Exclusion and Dropping Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book analyses the role played by schools themselves in the high rates of educational exclusion and dropping out that affects many European education systems. The author frames the analysis according to three aspects of justice – redistribution, recognition and care – to explore both how teachers...
by Michael R. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
This book provides a richly documented account of the historical, cultural, philosophical and practical dimensions of feng shui. It argues that where feng shui is entrenched educational systems have a responsibility to examine its claims, and that this examination provides opportunities for students...
Tradition and Innovation
Newton’s Metaphysics of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In my early years I was constituted in the exacting imperatives of philosophical analysis. That stern face is present in the composition of the Newton essays chosen here for republication. It is my hope that potential readers will be patient with the old Adam of analysis, and seize the portrait of...
by Gilbert Durand
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Questo densissimo testo ha il grande merito di spiegare non solo cos’è il simbolo e l’immaginazione simbolica, ma di reclamarne la centralità per tutte le forme della creazione psichica. Occorre decostruire l’unilaterialità sia delle retoriche positive che delle ermeneutiche riduttive, chiedersi...
Time and Cause
Essays presented to Richard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Richard Taylor was born in Charlotte, Michigan on 5 November 1919. He received his A. B. from the University of illinois in 1941, his M. A. from Oberlin College in 1947, and his Ph. D. from Brown University in 1951. He has been William H. P. Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, Professor...
The Push for a Child Philosophy
What Children Really Need You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
What children really need has been misunderstood for most of human history. Drawing on the latest scientific research, philosophy, and psychology as well as her own clinical experience, Maxine illuminates the life of the child. This book promotes the child as a soul - unified in body, mind, and...
Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality
A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Mathias Frisch provides the first sustained philosophical discussion of conceptual problems in classical particle-field theories. Part of the book focuses on the problem of a satisfactory equation of motion for charged particles interacting with electromagnetic fields. As Frisch shows, the standard...
Narratives of Social Justice Educators
Standing Firm
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book presents narratives of eminent social justice educators, which provide a window into why these educators have made it their mission to educate for attainment of social justice; it succinctly defines what social justice education is and what it is not. Eleven nationally and internationally...
Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"
In The Meaning of Human Existence,...
Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s...