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Democracy and Education, The Schools of Utopia, Studies in Logical Theory, Ethics, Soul and Body, Psychology and Social Practice, Psychology of Infant Language, German Philosophy and Politics...
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
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Technology and the Virtues
A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques...
Logic, Language, and Probability
A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...
Philosophy, History and Social Action
Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil. One was his essay on 'The Development of Logical Empiricism' (1941), and the other his critical review of Philipp Frank's...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Norms, Values, and Society is the second Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The main part of the book contains original contributions to an international symposium the Institute held in October 1993 on ethics and social philosophy. The papers deal among others...
Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy
Nature and Norms in Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars...
Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals)
An Essay in the Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold mischief...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book examines the conduct and purposes of educational research. It looks at values of researchers, at whose interests are served by the research, and the inclusion or exclusion of practitioners and subjects of research. It asks if educational research should be explicitly committed to promoting...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things –...
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
A Revolution for Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2019
This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction. Remarkably, these revolutionary contributions to philosophy turn out to have dramatic implications for a...
Philosophy of Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 14)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume provides an introduction to the philosophy of education, which will enable students meeting the subject for the first time to find their way among the many specialized volumes. It deals in a non-technical way with the more important issues raised in a philosophical approach to education,...
Existential Philosophy and the Promise of Education
Learning from Myths and Metaphors
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Myths and metaphors share not only an ability to call our attention to aspects of our world of which we were previously unaware, but also a propensity toward symbolic meanings and interpretations. In Existential Philosophy and the Promise of Education: Learning from Myths and Metaphors, Professor...
Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children
The Grammar of Upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2019
This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary ‘parenting’ culture. Hodgson and Ramaekers use film in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, infonnation, 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...