Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research. Its four sections are: first, science, culture and education; second, the teaching and learning of science; third, curriculum development and justification; and fourth, indoctrination.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
What things count as individuals, and how do we individuate them? It is a classic philosophical question often tackled from the perspective of analytic metaphysics. This volume proposes that there is another channel by which to approach individuation -- from that of scientific practices. From this...
by Clive Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
By reconsidering the theme of isolation in the philosophy of technology, and by drawing upon recent developments in social ontology, Lawson provides an account of technology that will be of interest and value to those working in a variety of different fields. Technology and Isolation includes chapters...
Taking Back Philosophy
A Multicultural Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Are American colleges and universities failing their students by refusing to teach the philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and other non-Western cultures? This biting and provocative critique of American higher education says yes. Even though we live in an increasingly multicultural...
by K. Brad Wray
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist...
Social Physics
How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland....
Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences
Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about...
A Defense of Simulated Experience
New Noble Lies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and Baudrillard have warned us of the dangers of living on too heavy a diet of illusion and make-believe. But contemporary...
Confucianism
A Modern Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This book is the Magnum Opus dedicated to Mr Chi Yun Chang, a prominent historian as well as the founder of Chinese Culture University. This book illustrates the six elements of Confucius' teachings: Philosophy of Life Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Creation, Political Philosophy,...
Love, Order, and Progress
The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume...
Praxis
Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume of the Boston Studies is a distillation of one of the most creative and important movements in contemporary social theory. The articles repre sent the work of the so-called 'Praxis' group in Yugoslavia, a heterogeneous movement of philosophers, sociologists, political theorists, historians,...
The Universe of Experience
A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Modern experience forces philosophy and social thought to confront the basic problems of value. Is this life worth caring about? How can we find a way between the deceit of fanatical belief and despair? In the view of Lancelot Law Whyte, the essential challenge to mankind today is an underlying nihilism...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions presented at the third biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Lansing, Michigan, on October 27-29, 1972. We are grateful to Michigan State University, and especially to Professor Peter Asquith and...
A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education
Pedagogical Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book, bringing together contributions by forty-five authors from fourteen countries, represents mostly new material from both emerging and seasoned scholars in the field of philosophy of education. Topics range widely both within and across the four parts of the book: Wittgenstein’s biography...