Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Education, Ethics and Experience
Essays in honour of Richard Pring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Education, Ethics and Experience is a collection of original philosophical essays celebrating the work of one of the most influential philosophers of education of the last 40 years. Richard Pring’s substantial body of work has addressed topics ranging from curriculum integration to the comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most fruitful approach to solving...
Proofs and Refutations
The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the...
Spatial Social Thought
Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems.
The Invention of Physical Science
Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously differentiated from religious interpretation, although, to be sure, scientists sometimes...
by John Hackworth
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
The book covers the rise of science from the Greeks to the followers of Bacon and Descartes. It argues that philosophy and science were interwoven until the 20th century with the certainties of the Baconian programme giving rise to the study of thermodynamics and the enlightenment. The advent of the...
by Yemima Ben-Menahem
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation—to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
In Philosophy of Nature (1935), Jacques Maritain spends six full pages on Emile Meyerson, a contemporary French reactionary to Positivist judgment. Like Maritain Meyerson is concerned with the epistemology of phenomena. How does the scientific intellect work?
Miguel Espinoza, at the University of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) held the chair of theoretical physics at Bordeaux from 1894 to his death. He established a reputation in both the history and philosophy of science as well as in science itself (physics and physical chemistry). Much of his work in the first two areas has been translated...
Relocating the History of Science
Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries of the European Periphery, and the constructive...
Cancer Stem Cells
Philosophy and Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy.
Finalization in Science
The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic and controversial book. The authors propose a thesis about the social direction of scientific research which was the occasion of a lively and often bitter debate in Germany from...
Social Education for Peace
Foundations, Teaching, and Curriculum for Visionary Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Carter illuminates and validates the vital role of visioning in social education. The book features peace in social education with instructional recommendations, planning resources and descriptions of transdisciplinary learning. It elaborates mindful citizenship across social, environmental, ethical, geographic, economic and political realms.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production. This movement challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational research,...