R S Peters: 20 books
Reason and Compassion (Routledge Revivals)
The Lindsay Memorial Lectures Delivered at the University of Keele, February-March 1971 and The Swarthmore Lecture Delivered to the Society of Friends 1972 by Richard S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1973, Reason and Compassion showcases a collection of lectures by Professor Richard S. Peters concerned primarily with the moral position, based on compassion and on the use of reason, which is critical to code-encased moralities. He reacts to the idea that whilst many people are...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
First published in 1981, this collection of essays was taken from Peters’ larger work, Psychology and Ethical Development (1974) in order to provide a more focused volume on moral education for students. Peters’ background in both psychology and philosophy makes the work distinctive, which is...
Psychology and Ethical Development (Routledge Revivals)
A Collection of Articles on Psychological Theories, Ethical Development and Human Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1974, this book presents a coherent collection of major articles by Richard Stanley Peters. It displays his work on psychology and philosophy, with special attention given to the areas of ethical development and human understanding.
The book is split into four parts. The...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1967, this book looks at what the role of a headteacher should be, challenging the traditional views of the head and the authoritarian structure of schools. Contributors explore new concepts of the head’s role in school and authors include both theorists and headteachers coming...
by S. Benn, R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are porblems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like rights,...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1981, Essays on Educators is a collection of essays on a variety of themes relating to Great Educators. The book is not only an exposition of the thought of these educators but a collection of critical essays in which their writings are used selectively to raise problems of permanent...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1966, this book was written to serve as an introductory textbook in the philosophy of education, focusing on ethics and social philosophy. It presents a distinctive point of view both about education and ethical theory and arrived at a time when education was a matter of great public...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1959, Authority, Responsibility and Education focuses on the philosophy of education and is concerned with the question of moral education. It was originally based on talks delivered mainly on the Home Service and Third Programme of the BBC between April 1956 and January 1959 but,...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1958 with a second edition in 1969, The Concept of Motivation looks philosophically and psychologically at the idea of motivation in order to explain human behaviour. Chapters cover types of explanation in psychological theories, motives and motivations, a look at Freud’s theory,...
by R.S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This collection of important and significant papers examines a wide range of issues. One of the author's main concerns is to clarify the meaning of 'education' and 'quality in education' - a phrase often used in public debate but seldom scrutinized. Long-standing ambiguities latent in the concept...
Containing Health Benefit Costs
The Self-Insurance Option
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The springboard for this sixth volume in the Industry and Health Care series was a conference sponsored by the Center for Industry and Health Care of Boston University on June 9 and 10, 1978. That conference had a gradual genesis. Over a year ago we spent some time with Kevin Stokeld of Deere and...
by D. R. Dowty, S. Peters, R. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways the paper 'The Proper Treatment...
Enterprise Software Security
A Confluence of Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
STRENGTHEN SOFTWARE SECURITY BY HELPING DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY EXPERTS WORK TOGETHER Traditional approaches to securing software are inadequate. The solution: Bring software engineering and network security teams together in a new, holistic approach to protecting the entire enterprise. Now, four...
Called and Chosen
Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
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