Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Fred Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The Science Delusion is an answer to Richard Dawkins God Delusion. Part A of The Science Delusion commences with a criticism of Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science. This is because some spokesmen for evolution like to use Karl Popper’s testability criterion as a categorisation argument against creationism....
Social Context Reform
A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Currently, both the status quo of public education and the "No Excuses" Reform policies are identical. The reform offers a popular and compelling narrative based on the meritocracy and rugged individualism myths that are supposed to define American idealism. This volume will refute this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks. What became "natural philosophy" and later "science" has traditionally been posed as a fundamental alternative to poetry and art. It is a theme that has commanded central attention in Western thought, as it captures...
The Origins of Fairness
How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In order to describe the logic of morality, "contractualist" philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions. These individuals, contractualists note, often act as if they have bargained and thus reached an agreement with others about how to distribute...
A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts
Volume II: Space, Time and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book provides a chronological introduction to the science of motion and rest based on the reading and analysis of significant portions of Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Pascal’s Treatise on the Equilibrium of Fluids and the Weight of the Mass of Air, Newton’s Mathematical...
Reinventing the Sacred
A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere?
In this bold and fresh look...
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
From If to Is
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition, published in 2008, brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. Part 1, on propositional logic, is the old Introduction, but contains much new...
Stem Cell Dialogues
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as the body repairs itself, revolutionizing the...
Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University
Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This edited collection brings together a robust range of philosophers who offer theoretically and critically informed proposals regarding the aims, policies, and structures of the university. The collection fills a major gap in the landscape of higher education theory and practice while concurrently...
A Tapestry of Values
An Introduction to Values in Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary theory, vaccine safety, and genetically modified foods has become overly...
by D. Streck
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context is committed to what has become known as "perspective of the South:" understanding the South not as a geographical reference but as a vindication of the existence of ways of knowing and of living which struggle for their survival...
Critical Social Issues in American Education
Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...
by John Freely
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid,...
Time One
Discover How the Universe Began
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Time One is a major contribution to the understanding of our universe. Author Colin Gillespie comes up with a strikingly simple answer to the most perplexing question of them all: How did the universe begin? Using forty-seven classic problems of philosophy and cosmology as clues, the narrator and...