Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Behavior and Its Causes
Philosophical Foundations of Operant Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Norms, Values, and Society is the second Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The main part of the book contains original contributions to an international symposium the Institute held in October 1993 on ethics and social philosophy. The papers deal among others...
by Adam Howard, Brianne Wheeler, Aimee Polimeno
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world...
by Harold Silver
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this...
The Shape of Thought
How Mental Adaptations Evolve
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized adaptations, and yet also an organ of plasticity. Although...
Juggling Flaming Chain Saws
Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Challenges of worklife balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many...
Radical Hope
Education and Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism
Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, With his responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen tieth century:...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book explores the concept of Life from a range of perspectives. Divided into three parts, it first examines the concept of Life from physics to biology. It then presents insights on the concept from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and ethics. The book concludes with chapters on the...
Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy
Nature and Norms in Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars...
by A. Reutlinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject.
Imperial Technoscience
Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A study of science and technology practices that shows how even emergent aspects of research and development remain entangled with established hierarchies.
In the last four decades, during which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a cutting-edge medical technology and a cultural...
by James M. Magrini
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book develops for the readers Plato’s Socrates’ non-formalized “philosophical practice” of learning-through-questioning in the company of others. In doing so, the writer confronts Plato’s Socrates, in the words of John Dewey, as the “dramatic, restless, cooperatively inquiring philosopher"...
Privilege, Agency and Affect
Understanding the Production and Effects of Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where possibilities for social change might lie.