Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Time for Science Education
How Teaching the History and Philosophy of Pendulum Motion can Contribute to Science Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing...
Implementing Philosophy in Elementary Schools
The Washington Elementary School Philosophy Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Implementing philosophy in Elementary Schools is the result of a two year collaboration project between the Washington Elementary School in San Jose, the Philosophy Department at San Jose State University, and a group of dedicated parents and volunteers. Piloted for the 2nd and 3rd grades, the result...
by David Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Educational policy and discussion, in Britain and the USA, are increasingly dominated by the confused ideology of egalitarianism. David E. Cooper begins by identifying the principles hidden among the confusions, and argues that these necessarily conflict with the ideal of educational excellence -...
Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Post-Structuralist Reader, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This first volume focuses on a collection of texts from the latter twenty years of Educational Philosophy and Theory, selected for their critical status as turning points or important awakenings in post-structural theory. In the last twenty years, the applications of the postmodern and poststructuralist...
Socially Just Pedagogies
Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book addresses contemporary philosophical issues in higher education and how we can create socially just pedagogies and a socially just university. Providing a forum for thinking through how critical posthumanism, affect theory and feminist new materialisms provide a useful lens for higher education,...
Troubling the Changing Paradigms
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Early Childhood Reader, Volume IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of the philosophy and pedagogy of early years, childhood and early childhood education. The philosophy...
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...
by H. Wagenvoort
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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...
Philosophy of Science
Volume 1, From Problem to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses...
My Teaching, My Philosophy
Kenneth Wain and the Lifelong Engagement with Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wain’s passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education,...
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...
Putting Information First
Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi’s contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy.
Contains...
The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics
A Naturalistic-Humanistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as "evidence-based medicine," which claim to be, but often are not, scientific. It completes medical care by adding the comprehensive humanistic perspectives and philosophy of medicine. No specific or absolute recommendations...