Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Objectivity, Realism, and Proof
FilMat Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in the attempt to give a satisfactory picture of mathematical knowledge.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality.
Potentials...
Macroscopic Metaphysics
Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what science rather than philosophical intuition tells us about the world, and chemistry rather than the physics that is more usually...
by I. Niiniluoto
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This collection brings together several essays which have been written between the years 197 5 and 1983. During that period I have been occupied with the attempt to find a satisfactory explicate for the notion of tnithlike ness or verisimilitude. The technical results of this search have partly...
Re-theorizing Literacy Practices
Complex Social and Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Moving beyond current theories on literacy practices, this edited collection sheds new light on the complexities inherent to the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which literacy practices are realized. Building on Brian V. Street’s scholarship, contributors discuss literacy as intrinsically...
Rethinking School Bullying
Dominance, Identity and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book takes a new angle on a much-studied phenomenon, focusing on the role of domination and identity construction, understanding and self-knowledge, moral transformation and the social community, systems of training and hierarchy used by schooling, and the role they play in bullying. Exploring...
The Claims of Parenting
Reasons, Responsibility and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. At the same time, there have been several philosophical treatments of...
Urban Education in the 19th Century
Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century...
Scientists, Democracy and Society
A Community of Inquirers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy. The author argues that there is no clear-cut division between science and the rest of society. Rather, scientists and laypeople form a single community of inquiry, which aims at the truth.
To defend his theory, the author...
Complexity and Education
Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic--to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the role and place of science in the humanities, religion, and the social sciences.
Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies...
Reading the Comments
Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web.
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are...
From Physics to Daily Life
Applications in Informatics, Energy, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Beatrice Bressan brings together a number of outstanding examples of successful cross-disciplinary technology transfer originating in fundamental physics research, which dramatically impacted scientific progress in areas which changed modern society. Many of them were developed at CERN, a hotbed of...
Making Things Happen
A Theory of Causal Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing...