Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Craig Callender
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom and the self. Yet as...
Eco-Deconstruction
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The contributors are an impressive group of philosophers and literary and cultural theorists.
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 Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY :
"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"
In The Dialectic of Freedom,...
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from--and how our selves can exist in the minds of others.
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I...
Debating Procreation
Is It Wrong to Reproduce?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring...
The Great Reversal
How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David...
by Ross Coburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"I would give all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates." – Steve Jobs
Heraclitus of Ephesus was the first of the four Ancient Greek philosophers identified as being the greatest thinkers of their, and any era. He coined the term Lógos, or Reason as having particular...
by A. Broadbent
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Epidemiology is one of the fastest growing and increasingly important sciences. This thorough analysis lays out the conceptual foundations of epidemiology, identifying traps and setting out the benefits of properly understanding this fascinating and important discipline, as well as providing the means to do so.
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a precise way...
Unified Science
The Vienna Circle Monograph Series originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
a priori, and what is more, to a rejection based ultimately on a posteriori findings; in other words, the "pure" science of nature in Kant's sense of the term had proved to be, not only not pure, but even false. As for logic and mathematics, the decisive works of Frege, Russell, and White...
by James K. Feibleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For some centuries now the western world has endeavored to choose between rationalism and empiricism; or, when a choice was found impossible, somehow to reconcile them. But the particular brands of both which were taken for granted in confronting the problem were sUbjective: individual human reasoning...
Robot Ethics 2.0
From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical....
Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World
Social Change Through the Cultural Professions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social agenda of ‘action research’,...