Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin. With more than sixty essays written by an international group representing the leading scholars in the field, this is the definitive work on Darwin. It covers the background to...
From Natural History to the History of Nature
Readings from Buffon and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism. Chapters deal with the first encounters of these traditions and beyond, looking at metaphysics and the Vienna circle as well as semantics and the principle...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens...
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
Suffering and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental...
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Release Date: November 27, 2013
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Release Date: November 27, 2013
Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is,...
Theory of Legal Science
Proceedings of the Conference on Legal Theory and Philosopy of Science Lund, Sweden, December 11–14, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the Conference on Legal Theory and Philosophy of Science, Lund, Sweden, December 11-14, 1983
Error and Inference
Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Although both philosophers and scientists are interested in how to obtain reliable knowledge in the face of error, there is a gap between their perspectives that has been an obstacle to progress. By means of a series of exchanges between the editors and leaders from the philosophy of science, statistics...
EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science
Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Education, Justice and the Human Good
Fairness and equality in the education system
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The education system is faced with many demands of justice. What these demands imply and how they are justified is, however, disputed. In this book, international contributors present cutting edge research to discuss the relationship between educational justice and the value of education.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
First published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book answers key questions regarding social justice in education. Its central theme is how the education system, through its organization and practices, is implicated in the realisation of just or unjust social outcomes. In particular, the writers examine the ways in which the identities of individuals...
Understanding Teaching and Learning
Classic Texts on Education by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman and Mill
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Generous selections from these four seminal texts on the theory and practice of education have never before appeared together in a single volume. The Introductions that precede the texts provide brief biographical sketches of each author, situating him within his broader historical, cultural and intellectual...