Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Integrating History and Philosophy of Science
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series...
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these...
Answers for Aristotle
How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science.
In Answers for Aristotle, Pigliucci argues that the combination...
Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms
Essays in Honour of John L. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L. Bell to celebrate his 60th birthday by colleagues, former students, friends and admirers. Like Bell’s own work, the contributions cross boundaries into several inter-related fields. The contributions are new work by highly...
by Michael A. Peters, Jeff Stickney
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator. Arguing for the centrality of education to Wittgenstein’s life and works, the authors resist any...
An Eye for An I
Philosophies of Personal Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
How can we gain insight into and mastery of ourselves? Entering the world of the great philosophers and engaging with them, we become aware of what we are capable of becoming. They speak to us of themselves and the good life and thereby offer the possibility for self-development.
While this...
by Alfred North Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
From a discussion of Einstein’s theories to an analysis of meaning, the philosopher offers a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics.
This is a collection of many of Whitehead’s papers that are scattered elsewhere. It was the penultimate book he published, and represents...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars...
The Language of Nature
Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological integration of mathematics and natural philosophy. Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive...
Education, Values and Mind (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 6)
Essays for R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
R. S. Peters has not only been the major philosopher of education in Britain during second half of the twentieth century, but by common consent, he has transformed the subject and brought it into the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. The ten essays in this book attest to his influence whether...
The Social Evolution of Human Nature
From Biology to Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us...
by Brian Skyrms
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer,...
World Views and the Problem of Synthesis
The Yellow Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book considers philosophy to be more than mere reflection. Through philosophy, humankind can give meaning to the world. In part, this book re-evaluates the philosophy of Leo Apostel, who dedicated his life to the investigation of the use of philosophy in everyday life. But it is also a presentation...
In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
Volume Two of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...