Philosophy Social Aspects list 81

Social and Emotional Learning in Action

Experiential Activities to Positively Impact School Climate

by Tara Flippo
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

Social and Emotional Learning in Action*(SELA)* is an easy to use sourcebook facilitated by teaching and/or counseling practitioners primarily in school settings. The pedagogical basis for these lessons are shaped around the research findings of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional...

Economics Without Laws

Towards a New Philosophy of Economics

by Łukasz Hardt
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character. The author avoids interpreting the practice of economics as something that leads to the formulation of universal laws or laws of nature. Instead, chapters...

Strict Finitism and the Logic of Mathematical Applications

by Feng Ye
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011

This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories. The applied mathematical theories developed in the book include the basics of calculus, metric space theory, complex...

Agents and Goals in Evolution

by Samir Okasha
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Samir Okasha offers a philosophical perspective on evolutionary biology in Agents and Goals in Evolution. His focus is on "agential thinking", which is a mode of thought commonly employed in evolutionary biology. The paradigm case of agential thinking involves treating an evolved organism...

Wisdom

Lost and Rediscovered

by Nicholas Beecroft
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014

Professor Jim Garrison interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. What is wisdom? How is it distinct from knowledge, truth, logic and science? Is it gut feeling, heart-brain, neurological and cognitive short cuts, tapping into electromagnetic energy, consciousness, all of that or something...

A Global Perspective of Social Justice Leadership for School Principals

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Within education there have been some notable attempts to frame social justice in ways that can help to explain and understand the practices of those working in schools, especially school leaders. The research contained in this book seeks to enhance our understanding of school leaders’ actions as they...

Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences

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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis. Offering a unique range of explorations and reflections utilizing field analysis, the eighteen chapters by prominent Bourdieusian...

Philosophy of Music Education Challenged: Heideggerian Inspirations

Music, Education and Personal Development

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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

This volume offers key insights into the crisis of legitimization that music as a subject of arts education seems to be in. Music as an educational subject is under intense pressure, both economically, due to the reduction of education budgets, as well as due to a loss of status with policy makers....

Protophysics of Time

Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement

by P. Janich
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

For protophysics, the fascinating and impressive constructive re-establish ment of the foundations of science by Professor Paul Lorenzen, working with his colleagues and students of the Erlangen School, no task is more central than to.furmulate a theoretical understanding of the practical art of...

Stephan Körner — Philosophical Analysis and Reconstruction

Contributions to Philosophy

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education

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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018

The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education offers the reader a comprehensive and authoritative account of both the theoretical and practical complexities of cultivating virtue in education and beyond. The book moves beyond the usual philosophical literature that merely discusses virtue in the abstract,...

Physicalism and the Mind

by Robert Francescotti
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014

This book addresses a tightly knit cluster of questions in the philosophy of mind. There is the question: Are mental properties identical with physical properties? An affirmative answer would seem to secure the truth of physicalism regarding the mind, i.e., the belief that all mental phenomena obtain...

Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation

by Theo A.F. Kuipers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

3 in philosophy, and therefore in metaphilosophy, cannot be based on rules that avoid spending time on pseudo-problems. Of course, this implies that, if one succeeds in demonstrating convincingly the pseudo-character of a problem by giving its 'solution', the time spent on it need not be seen as wasted....

Talk With Your Kids

Conversations About Ethics -- Honesty, Friendship, Sensitivity, Fairness, Dedication, Individuality -- and 103 Other Things That Really Matter

by Michael Parker
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues Many families and almost all schools...