Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Henri Lefebvre and Education
Space, history, theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The Production of Space was translated in 1991. While this work - often associated with geography - has influenced...
by Clóvis de Barros Filho, Leandro Karnal
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 22, 2017
De filmes e livros a propagandas de televisão, a todo momento somos instados a ser felizes. Pois, como diria o poeta, "é melhor ser alegre que ser triste". O desejo pela felicidade parece ser mesmo uma constante de nosso tempo. Aqui, Clóvis de Barros Filho e Leandro Karnal passeiam pela...
by Vinciane Despret
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword
Is it all...
Evolutionary Biology
Conceptual, Ethical, and Religious Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this well in the much-quoted title of his 1973 paper 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light...
The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historian Derrick P. Alridge illuminates Du Bois’s educational thought on a wide variety of issues, such as women and education, black leadership, black identity, civil rights, black higher education, community education, and academic achievement. This incisive examination traces relationships with...
Quantum Mind and Social Science
Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon....
Combining Science and Metaphysics
Contemporary Physics, Conceptual Revision and Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Offering a new perspective on the debate concerning naturalism in philosophy, this book defends the autonomy of metaphysics while also making science centre stage. Three independent case studies provide a clear introduction to, and discussion of, key philosophical issues.
Ontological Politics in a Disposable World
The New Mastery of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, ’enhance’ and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged,...
Education, Society and Human Nature (RLE Edu K)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Intended primarily for education students this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of education that tackles educational problems and at the same time relates them to the mainstream of philosophical analysis. Among the educational topics the book discusses are the aims of education, the...
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Hermeneutical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wider world. He insisted on the supreme importance of prior learning, but also on the unpredictability...
by Michael Lanfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Many people view vegans as extreme, radical, and preachy, but veganism is not some new age hippie thing that only a few individuals engage in. It is growing in popularity, rising in numbers. As more people become vegan, most find it difficult to cope in a non-vegan world, especially when it comes...
Little Big Minds
Sharing Philosophy with Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds.
Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant...
by Thomas Stehlik
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book explores education in the 21st century in post-modern Western societies through a philosophical lens. Taking a broad perspective of education and its attendant terminology, assumptions, myths and influences; the author examines why we teach as opposed to how. In doing so, he includes not...
Social Pedagogy and Working with Children and Young People
Where Care and Education Meet
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Social pedagogy is an innovative discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of...