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Philosophy of Education
Introductory Readings
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Revised and updated with 25 new essays, the fourth edition of this bestselling collection brings together more than 30 leaders in the field of educational theory. An engaging exploration of the ideas and trends shaping education in today’s classrooms, Philosophy of Education includes topics on high-stakes...
Creating Scientific Controversies
Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy, however, was misleading, designed to confuse the public and to protect industry interests. Created scientific controversies...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines the concept of civility and the conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education. Although many assume that civility is merely polite behavior, it functions to aid rational discourse. Building on this basic assumption, the book offers multiple accounts of civility and...
Philosophy of Physics
Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory.
Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian...
Pirate Philosophy
For a Digital Posthumanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation, publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Only recently has the phenomenon of technology become an object of in terest for philosophers. The first attempts at a philosophy of technology date back scarcely a hundred years - a span of time extremely short when com pared with the antiquity of philosophical reflections on nature, science,...
John Dewey
Liberty and the Pedagogy of Disposition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book presents John Dewey’s work as a claim to the human potentials found in experience, the imagination and the possibilities that emerge from our disposition towards liberty. It details Dewey’s work as a critical junction marked by the quandary of schooling and culture, and where learning...
Being White, Being Good
White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity...
Educational Dimensions of School Lunch
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission...
Worldviews
An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS
"This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed reframing) of the history and philosophy of science in terms of worldviews and their elements…. In addition, the book is incredibly...
by Samir Okasha
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully 'objective'? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy...
Doing Science
In the Light of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some...
by Marvin Oxenham
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison with ancient...