Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Thinking in Education Research
Applying Philosophy and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Thinking in Education Research examines the resources available from philosophy and theory that can be practically applied to any educational research project. Nick Peim argues that the current well-established divide between theory and the empirical in research methods is unhelpful to students. Instead,...
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Timeless Books: Editor
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter as the follows:
1. Preface of Logical-Philosophical Treatise by Bertrand Russell
2. The world is everything that is the case
3. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts
4. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's...
The Future of Creation Order
Vol. 1, Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Perspectives on Order and Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty,...
Measurement, Realism and Objectivity
Essays on Measurement in the Social and Physical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World...
Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy
The Forgotten Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which...
Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy
How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from scientific knowledge and its applications....
by Finn Collin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic tends either to narrate the history...
Nature Animated
Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Greek Medicine, Nineteenth-Century and Recent Biology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis/Papers Deriving from the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, Montreal, Canada, 198
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. The conference was held under the auspices of the Union, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research...
A Song from the Heart
The Pedagogical Philosophy of Lorna Lutz Heyge, Phd
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
A Song from the Heart describes the development of Lorna Lutz Heyges teaching philosophythe philosophy that brought the original Kindermusik (1974-1994) from its beginnings as a German neighborhood music school program to its early days in Greensboro, North Carolina. Through a series of sound, intellectual,...
Philosophy of Science in Practice
Nancy Cartwright and the Nature of Scientific Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and apparatuses of science help us to...
by Gerard de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the world, Latour has introduced...
Nature Mathematized
Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Classical Modern Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. The conference was held under the auspices of the Union, The Social Sciences and Humanities...
Philosophy in Mind
The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Increasingly, the mind is being treated as a fit subject for scientific inquiry. As cognitive science and empirical psychology strive to uncover the mind's secrets, it is fitting to inquire as to what distinctive role is left for philosophy in the study of mind. This collection, which includes contributions...