Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Class Strategies and the Education Market
The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.
Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction...
Waking the Mind
A personal study of the pedagogy of J. Krishnamurti's educational philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Geetha Waters’ engaging selection of short stories, Waking the Mind, is a reflection on Jiddu Krishnamurti’s impact on her education based on her experiences at a school he founded in South India. She credits her passion for inquiry as being sparked the first time she heard Krishnamurti speak...
Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education
For a People-Yet-to-Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Deleuze & Guattari, Politics and Education mobilizes Deleuzian-Guattarian philosophy as a revolutionary alternative to the lingering forms of transcendence, identity politics, and nihilism endemic to Western thought. Operationalizing Deleuze and Guattari's challenge to contemporary philosophy,...
by Gary Ebbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Carnap, Quine, and Putnam held that in our pursuit of truth we can do no better than to start in the middle, relying on already-established beliefs and inferences and applying our best methods for re-evaluating particular beliefs and inferences and arriving at new ones. In this collection of essays,...
Methodological Variance
Essays in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes?...
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
John White's study is the most substantial work on what the aims of education should be since Whitehead's Aims of Education of 1929. It draws on material not only from schools and colleges, but also from the broader educative or miseducative nature of the 'ethos' of society and some of its major institutions....
Chaotic Harmony
A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This fascinating book written by Ali Sanayei and Otto E. Rössler is not a classic scientific publication, but a vivid dialogue on science, philosophy and the interdisciplinary intersections of science and technology with biographic elements. Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and...
Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools
How to Philosophize with a Digital Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Who are we in simulated worlds? Will experiencing worlds that are not 'actual' change our ways of structuring thought? Can virtual worlds open up new possibilities to philosophize? Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools tries to answer these questions from a perspective that combines philosophy of technology with videogame design.
Education between Speech and Writing
Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This unique book explores how graphocentrism affects Chinese education and culture. It moves away from the contemporary educational practices in China of following the Western model of phonocentrism, to demonstrate that each perspective interacts and counteracts with each other, creating a dialogue...
Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure of Ideas and Innovative Practices in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This new addition to Springer’s series on Key Thinkers in World Education tracks the intellectual and philosophical journey of a trail-blazing innovator whose ideas have fired the imaginations of progressive educationalists for almost a century. The volume’s in-depth analysis of the educational...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This book’s original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles...
The Arrows of Time
A Debate in Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
The concept of time has fascinated humanity throughout recorded history, and it remains one of the biggest mysteries in science and philosophy. Time is clearly one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe and thus a deeper understanding of nature at a fundamental level also demands a comprehension...
by Eugene Goodheart
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In this volume,...
by Gilbert S Mane
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
What is a human being? A bag of physical matter with the mysterious power to think and feel? A soul inhabiting a mortal body? As Hamlet says: “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty.” This short monograph on a holistic philosophy of education...