Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This is a philosophical treatment of the conceptual and normative aspects of topics which are currently a matter of policy debate in education. The authors have focussed on such concepts as liberty, autonomy, equality and pluralism, and have provided a philosophical commentary which relates these...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
An innovative, multifaceted approach to scientific experiments as designed by and shaped through interaction with the modeling process
The role of scientific modeling in mediation between theories and phenomena is a critical topic within the philosophy of science, touching on issues from climate...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific representations and models. These are...
Atopias
Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that...
Discovering Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recognized - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this broad area of inquiry found their base,...
Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology
Innovative Research Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge
An Explanatory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the epistemology of science. It not only introduces readers to the general epistemological discussion of the nature of knowledge, but also provides key insights into the particular nuances of scientific knowledge. No prior knowledge of...
by Judith Andre
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies. The work they do also varies widely: consulting on ethical issues in patient care, working with legislatures, dealing with...
Children's Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development
Primary and Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
The second edition of this popular text has been revised and updated to include the new Professional Standards needed to achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Tackling these elusive but fundamental aspects of children's development, this text places the importance of spiritual, moral, social and...
Martin Heidegger
Challenge to Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This book sets out to explore the challenge to education contained in Heidegger’s work. His direct remarks about education are examined and placed in the broader context of his philosophy to create an account of Heidegger’s challenge. Martin Heidegger is an undisputed giant of 20th Century thought....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no surprise. It was in the spirit of attempting to establish the basis for intelligent discussion of the issues involved that...
Science, Explanation, and Rationality
Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2000
Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, distinguished philosophers contribute valuable studies that illuminate and clarify the central problems to which Hempel was devoted. The essays enhance...
New Perspectives on Galileo
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy...