Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Erwin Schrödinger’s World View
The Dynamics of Knowledge and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Erwin Schrödinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radiacally changed the foundations of our modern worldview, modern biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the mind, and epistemology.
This...
Philosophy of Systems Biology
Perspectives from Scientists and Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modelling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big data influence research practices?...
by Henk Zandvoort
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the nineteen sixties onwards a branch of philosophy of science has come to development, called history-oriented philosophy of science. This development constitutes a reaction on the then prevailing logical empiricist conception of scientific knowledge. The latter was increasingly seen as suffering...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This volume offers a meta-philosophical reflection on feminist philosophies of science. It emphasizes and discusses both the connections and differences between "traditional" philosophies of science and feminist philosophies of science. The collection systematically analyses feminist contributions...
by Don Ihde
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Husserl’s Missing Technologies looks at the early-twentieth-century “classical” phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, both in the light of the philosophy of science of his time, and retrospectively at his philosophy from a contemporary “postphenomenology.” Of central interest are his infrequent...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of education combined with an up-to-date selection of the central themes. It includes 95 newly commissioned articles that focus on and advance key arguments; each essay incorporates essential background material serving...
Nyansapo (The Wisdom Knot)
Toward an African Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ideas, methods and technology from abroad.
Science and the Creative Spirit
Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can...
Objectivity, Realism, and Proof
FilMat Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in the attempt to give a satisfactory picture of mathematical knowledge.
The essays collected here ...
Philosophy in Education
Questioning and Dialogue in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialog in K-12 Classrooms is a textbook in the fields of pre-college philosophy and philosophy of education, intended for philosophers and philosophy students, K-12 classroom teachers, administrators and educators, policymakers, and pre-college practitioners...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
A series of public lectures given at the Institute of Education, University of London provides the nucleus around which this collection, originally published in 1967, is gathered. This collection provides comprehensive coverage of a complex theme which will be of interest to those involved in the...
Science Between Truth and Ethical Responsibility
Evandro Agazzi in the Contemporary Scientific and Philosophical Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book offers the most complete and up-to-date overview of the philosophical work of Evandro Agazzi, presently the most important Italian philosopher of science and one of the most influential in the world. Scholars from seven countries explore his contributions in areas ranging from philosophy...
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education
Nine Modern European Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work...