Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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...
The Reform of the International System of Units (SI)
Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units (SI). Most of the SI base units will henceforth be based on certain laws of nature and a choice of fundamental constants whose values...
The Prism of Science
The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the second volume of Proceedings of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. At the time that this preface is being written, the fourth annual series of lectures within the framework of the Israel Colloquium is already behind us and the fifth is underway....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
effectiveness and creativity in different contexts. In this issue this will be presented in full detail in the articles which refer to different aspects of the Israeli educational context. This special issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education concentrates on the intellectual impotence, moral devotion,...
Dehumanization and Human Fragility
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
When the trade center collapsed in New York, I was sitting at my desk at the newspaper La Provincia di Como, in Italy. If I cannot forget that day, it is not only because that major event shuttered me, but in reason of the cognitive limits that I could experiment. For the first time in my professional...
The Conditions for School Success
Examining Educational Exclusion and Dropping Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book analyses the role played by schools themselves in the high rates of educational exclusion and dropping out that affects many European education systems. The author frames the analysis according to three aspects of justice – redistribution, recognition and care – to explore both how teachers...
Your Happiness Was Hacked
Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives—the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it.”
**—Dean Ornish, M.D....
Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
The Big Disconnect
Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use to successfully shepherd their children through the technological wilderness.
As the...
Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.
This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash....
Visions Of Technology
A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems A
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth....
by B.-C. Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In his writings around 1930, Wittgenstein relates his philosophy in different ways to the idea of phenomenology. He indicates that his main philosophical project had earlier been the construction of a purely phenomenological language, and even after having given up this project he believed that "the...
The Naked Future
What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive
Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry,...