Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by J.E. Kantor
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The recent interest in biomedical ethics has resulted in the publication of a great many textbooks in the field. As good as many of these texts are, their attempts to encompass the ethical issues in all areas of health care have left them wanting in comprehensive treatments of specific areas that...
International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education
Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as...
The Ethics of Animal Re-creation and Modification
Reviving, Rewilding, Restoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse extinction and to help in conservation has been sparked. This volume studies the question philosophically.
Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn
Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
We find “vertical” relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies. This book is the first to bring together, and comparatively assess, the exciting array of philosophical approaches to vertical relations...
by Professor Michel Serres
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
According to Michel Serres, a process of 'hominescence' has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again...
Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics
An Essay on Finitism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book grew out of a graduate student paper [261] in which I set down some criticisms of J. R. Lucas' attempt to refute mechanism by means of G6del's theorem. I had made several such abortive attempts myself and had become familiar with their pitfalls, and especially with the double edged nature...
Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories
Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this...
Buddha's Principle of Relativity
Mind Body Stress
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Buddhas Principle of Relativity (Mind - Body Stress)
You will undoubtedly be bumping into the most philosophical of Buddhas teachings. The Principle of Relativity (Paticcasamuppada) was His first set of guidelines for freedom from suffering. Buddha found a cure for mental disorder and decided...
Exploring Inductive Risk
Case Studies of Values in Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it. But, since science draws conclusions based on limited empirical evidence, there is always a chance that a scientific inference will be incorrect. That chance, known as inductive risk, is endemic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
As psychology and philosophy arose as answers to the eternal question of how the mind works, evolutionary psychology has gained ground over recent years as a link between cognitive-behavioral and natural-science theories of the mind. This provocative field has also gathered a wide range...
Friendship and Diversity
Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships...
Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Recent scientific developments, in particular advances in pharmacogenetics and molecular genetics, have given rise to numerous predictive procedures for detecting predispositions to diseases in patients. This knowledge, however, does not necessarily promise benign results for either patients or health...
Epistemic Analysis
A Coherence Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
THIS ESSAY was begun a long time ago, in 1962, when I spent a year in Rome on a Guggenheim Fellowship. That twenty one years were required to complete it is owing both to the character of the theory presented and to my peculiar habits of mind. The theory presented is a coherence theory of knowledge:...