Imprint Academic imprint: 246 books
Liberalism, Education and Schooling
Essays by T.H. McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
A tribute collection of essays edited by author's colleagues and friends.
The Unleashed Scandal
The End of Control in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In an age of ubiquitous digital media and permanent mutual observation scandals are omnipresent. Everybody can release them, everybody can become their victim. Videos on mobile phones terminate careers, Twitter messages generate outrage, and SMS messages turn into evidence. Documents of embarrassment...
A Guide to the Classics
or How to Pick the Derby Winner
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Originally written in 1936 by two young Cambridge Fellows, A Guide to the Classics is a light-hearted manual on how to pick the Derby winner. However, as the tongue-in-cheek title suggested, there is more to the book than meets the eye, especially as one of the young dons went on to become, according...
Spiritual Crisis
Varieties and Perspectives of a Transpersonal Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The American comedienne Lily Tomlin once observed with surprise that we call it 'praying' when we talk to God and 'schizophrenia' when God talks back to us. In this book people speak about inner experiences in which they perceived themselves and the world so differently that they thought they were going...
by Jason W. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The chapters in this volume attempt to establish some foundational principles of a theory of the mind/brain grounded in evolutionary and process theory. From this standpoint, the book discusses some main problems in philosophical psychology, including the nature and origins of the mind/brain state, experience...
by David Lorimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume arises out of a series of university events arranged by the Scientific and Medical Network between November 2001 and July 2003. The Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality project was set up with the support of the John Templeton Foundation in order to examine critical...
Histories and Discourses
Rewriting Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Siegfried J. Schmidt is closely associated in Germany with the cross-disciplinary research programme of Radical Constructivism. In Histories & Discourses he carries out a change of perspective from media and communication studies to studies of culture and the philosophy of language.His 'rewriting' of...
Reforming Science
Beyond Belief
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In the 17th century Sir Francis Bacon advocated the patient study of Nature for the benefit of mankind. Most of science today, in its study of medicine, genetics, electronics etc., continues that pragmatic Baconian tradition without fuss. Over the years, however, as its investigation of Nature probed...
Lotteries for Education
Origins, Experiences, Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Lotteries are widely used to decide places (seats) at schools, colleges and universities. Conall Boyle explores many examples to find out why. The emotional turmoil that the use of ballots can cause to students and parents alike is graphically described. But lottery selection teaches lessons too;...
by Soren Brier
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
A festschrift issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing focusing on the work of Ranulph Glanville, cybernetician, design researcher, theorist, educator and multi-platform artist/designer/performer.
Mechanisms in World and Mind
Perspective Dualism, Systems Theory, Neuroscience, Reductive Physicalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The topic of the reduction of mental processes to biophysical mechanisms touches at the core of the mindbody problem, a puzzle in the philosophy of mind since the days of Descartes. This book is about philosophical aspects of neuroscience, centred on perspective dualism. The topic unfolds in the discussion...
That's Racist!
How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Twenty-first century British kids are more comfortable with ethnic diversity than ever before. The 'mixed race' population is rising exponentially. In school playgrounds across Britain, kids are inventing a version of colour-blind, multi-ethnic interaction that should teach the adult world a thing...
by Eric Steven Kos
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book addresses a question fundamental for Oakeshott throughout his life, which is what we are doing when we read and discuss some memorable work in the history of political thought. The approach the book takes to Oakeshott’s response to this question is of particular interest in that it explores...
Public Health and Globalisation
Why a National Health Service is Morally Indefensible
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Claims that there are good arguments for a public health service that do not amount to arguments for a national health service, but for something that looks far more like a transnational health service.