Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Surrogate Humanity
Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military...
Calculated Surprises
A Philosophy of Computer Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are changing the face and inner workings of science. In this book, Lenhard concentrates on the ways in which computers and simulation are transforming the established conception of mathematical...
Learning to be in the World with Others
Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and...
by John Fentress Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
In this collection of essays John Fentress Gardner illuminates many challenging aspects of modern life that concern him-and concern most of us, as well. From poverty and environmental degradation to sexuality, parental discipline, and the pressures of modern life; from the further paths of knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The contributors to this collection of essays offer a stimulating and varied range of approaches to this developing area. The volume includes discussions on the concept of education and such related topics as indoctrination and the nature and scope of the theory of education. Aspects of education...
Models of Man
A Phenomenological Critique of Some Paradigms in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This essay is, first, a theoretical and historical study of some classical scientific ways of studying human being in the world. The more readily accessible and more commonly discussed "models" of being human were chosen for review here, but structuralism is included because I believe it...
Rethinking Disability
Bodies, Senses, and Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday...
by N. Sieroka
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time.
The Dark Places of Education (RLE Edu K)
With a Collection of Seventy-Eight Reports of School Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The book is divided into two parts. The first forms a survey of the inadequacies of the Swiss school system in the early twentieth century (but the issues it discusses were universal ones which were just as prevalent in the English school system of that time). The second part of the book is a collection...
by Rudolf Steiner, E.Bowen-Wedgewood, Ruth Mariott
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
History often provides insight into the present. Consider the American South one hundred and fifty years ago, for example. There, human rights and economic servitude were compressed onto a single domain for black Americans. They became a means of production that could be bought and sold as a commodity....
Biology, History, and Natural Philosophy
Based on the Second International Colloquium held at the University of Denver
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In a world that peers over the brink of disaster more often than not it is difficul t to find specific assignments for the scholarly community. One speaks of peace and brotherhood only to realize that for many the only real hope of making a contribution may seem to be in a field of scientific specialization...
The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes
Religion and Science in the Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon--the placement of fish symbols on the rear of automobiles. There are two kinds: one a fish outline with a cross, exhibited by Christians; the other a fish outline filled with the word "evolution," with little legs...
Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964/1966
In Memory of Norwood Russell Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966. In most cases, they have been substantially modified subsequent to presentation and discussion. Once again we publish work which goes beyond technical analysis of scientific...
Post-Truth
Knowledge As A Power Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
‘Post-truth’ was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory. Post-Truth reaches back to Plato, ranging across...