Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics
The Virtuous Epistemic Circle
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across...
Unexceptional
Darwin, Atheism & Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Utilizing his extensive knowledge in evolutionary biology, philosophy, religion and atheism, author Adam Neiblum weaves together several prominent trends in contemporary thought springing from Darwin’s theory of evolution. With philosophical argumentation and wit, he makes a compelling case for the...
Reclaiming Discipline for Education
Knowledge, relationships and the birth of community
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life. Reclaiming Discipline for Education revisits neglected philosophical ideas about discipline in education and uses these ideas to re-think practices and discourses...
New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics
Theoretical and Practical
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book focuses on a key issue today: the role of values in technology, with special emphasis on ethical values. This topic involves the analysis of internal values in technology (as they affect objectives, processes, and outcomes) and the study of external values in technology (social, cultural,...
by Peter G. Hilton JD, Dr. James A. Kholos
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
There are approximately 1,077,520 private security guards employed in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics), with approximately 700,000 sworn police officers. The training for security officers can be a little as 8 to 40 hours prior to them being employed or assigned to a work location....
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
This lecture is part of the collection "The Foundations of Human Experience" by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century,...
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England
Gender, Instruction, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church, led to, mirrored, and was perhaps even transformed by moments of instruction on stage. This volume...
Rational Changes in Science
Essays on Scientific Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi losophers; "but today's fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, complains;...
by Kimberly Hurd Hale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Francis Bacon, long considered a minor figure in the founding of modern political thought, is now recognized as one of its foremost thinkers. Bacon not only championed a new type and method of scientific inquiry, he also developed a plan for how modern society could be re-ordered to accommodate and...
The Fourth Revolution
How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between...
55 Years of Thoughts & Meditations
Practical Experiential Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
The book “55 years of Thoughts & Meditations” is the result of the constant efforts, inquiries, reflections, thoughts and meditations of one man. All matters analysed derive from our everyday lives and include social, political, philosophical and love issues, as well as more general reflections...
The Sceptical Optimist
Why technology isn't the answer to everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
The rapid developments in technologies — especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet — has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating...
Environments of Intelligence
From natural information to artificial interaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In...
Consilience
The Unity of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal
One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning...