Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Robert J. O'Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The controversy surrounding the origin of the universe, earth, and all living things is an ongoing debate in the public sphere. In Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism, author Robert J. OKeefe presents analysis leading to the realization that to obtain knowledge of origin is also to discover...
by Robert J. O’Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The controversy surrounding the origin of the universe, earth, and all living things is an ongoing debate in the public sphere. In Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism, author Robert J. OKeefe presents analysis leading to the realization that to obtain knowledge of origin is also to discover...
Higher Education in the High North
Academic Exchanges between Norway and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents region, especially between Norway and Russia.
Cultural...
The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Chinese Educational Philosophy Reader, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
This edited collection is based on a series of articles written by Michael A Peters as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory to explore the concept of The Chinese Dream first introduced by President Xi in 2012. This seventh volume in the Editor's Choice series provides a philosophical...
by Allen Brent
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
What models in the social sciences underlie existing or proposed patterns of educational practice? What theories of knowledge inform such models and thus arguably sanction such practice? In this book, first published in 1983, the author seeks some tentative answers.
Wittgenstein’s understanding...
Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger
Nearness, Metaphor and the Question of Education in Digital Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger attempts to deepen the dialogue between philosophy of education and philosophy of technology, while engaging with the thought of Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Through a critical reading of Heidegger’s central notion of nearness, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Daniel C. Dennett began publishing innovative philosophical research in the late 1960s, and he has continued to do so for the past 45 years. He has addressed questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, the possibility of freedom, and the significance of evolution to addressing questions...
La philosophie contemporaine / Contemporary philosophy
Chroniques nouvelles / A new survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The present publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Contemporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky. As with the earlier series the present chronicles purport to give a survey of significant trends in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different...
Educational Judgments (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 9)
Papers in the Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The topics covered in this volume, originally published in 1973, include the need for a more adequate concept or definition of education, the issue of whether indoctrination is compatible with education, particularly with moral education, and the processes of judging the merits of different approaches...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: 10 Quintessential Philosophy Books, Including Autobiography, Essays & Letters – All in One Volume
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Will to Power, Antichrist, Ecce Homo, The Twilight of the Idols, Genealogy of Morals, Birth of Tragedy, The Case of Wagner...
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because...
by Vero Luigi Tarca
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Conventional wisdom regarding philosophy – even among philosophers themselves – is that it is a school of thought whose purpose is to examine other schools of thought, scientific or ethical, in order to assay their reliability. Since its beginnings, however, philosophy has meant the search for...
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
Problems, Perspectives, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This book features papers on the history and philosophy of science. It also includes related reviews of recent research literature on Rudolf Carnap, Eino Kaila, Ernst Mach, and Otto Neurath.
The central idea behind this volume is that this distinctive field is both historical and philosophical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In this volume, Julinna Oxley and Ramona Ilea bring together essays that examine and defend the use of experiential learning activities to teach philosophical terms, concepts, arguments, and practices. Experiential learning emphasizes the importance of student engagement outside the traditional classroom...