Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Gary J. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In this brief philosophy-tinged discussion the personal Weltanschauung (German for 'world view') of the author is outlined and ultimately contrasted with that of the science fiction/fantasy novels Government Men, its prequel Secrets of Goth Mountain, and other works of the author. Focus...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction looks at the...
Objectivity in Science
New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This highly multidisciplinary collection discusses an increasingly important topic among scholars in science and technology studies: objectivity in science. It features eleven essays on scientific objectivity from a variety of perspectives, including philosophy of science, history of science, and...
Critical Service Learning Toolkit
Social Work Strategies for Promoting Healthy Youth Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development. Designed as a user-friendly guide to carrying out successful CSL projects, this Toolkit provides practitioners with step-by-step...
by J. T. Ismael
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and...
Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism
In Defense of Belief in the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives...
Voices of Pineland
Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of “Feeblemindedness” in Maine by Stephen Murphy tells the story of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later known as Pineland Hospital and Training Center. Based on an in depth analysis of annual institutional reports, newspaper clippings,...
Teaching Social Foundations of Education
Contexts, Theories, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:
*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations...
Science and Social Work
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining...
Education and the Common Good
Essays in Honor of Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Robin Barrow has been one of the leading philosophers of education for more than forty years. This book is a critical but appreciative examination of his work by some of the leading philosophers of education at work today, with responses from Professor Barrow. It will focus on his work on curriculum,...
Student Development and Social Justice
Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change. The author combines diverse theoretical models such as critical pedagogy, asset-based community...
Sex and Death
An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Is the history of life a series of accidents or a drama scripted by selfish genes? Is there an "essential" human nature, determined at birth or in a distant evolutionary past? What should we conserve—species, ecosystems, or something else?
Informed answers to questions like these,...
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang...