Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Discovering Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this...
by Robert Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Absolute Truth - Abstraction - Adler - Aenesidemus - Agnosticism - Agnostics Agricola through Tacitus - An Hypothesis is a Wild Ass Guess Anaximander - Apologist Philosophers and Theologians Apriorism’ of Kant - Aristotle Subjective Idealist - Avenarius Subjective Idealist Anaximenes - Ayn Rand...
by Sabine Roeser
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and pollution....
Social Reconstruction Learning
Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, which is deeply embedded in all aspects of Western society and philosophy, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to facilitate...
Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon
Individuation, Technics, Social Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This combination of historiography and theory offers the growing Anglophone readership interested in the ideas of Gilbert Simondon a thorough and unprecedented survey of the French philosopher’s entire oeuvre. The publication, which breaks new ground in its thoroughness and breadth of analysis,...
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...
by Ruth Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition addresses both the physiological and the psychological aspects of human behavior. Carefully crafted, well written, and thoroughly indexed, the encyclopedia helps users - whether they are students just beginning formal study of the broad field or...
Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education
Critical Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Distinct among contemporary philosophical studies focused on education, this book engages the history of phenomenological thought as it moves from philosophy proper (the European phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition) through curriculum studies. It thus presents the "best of both worlds"...
Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science.
The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s...
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume is a unique contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences, presenting the results of cutting-edge philosophers' research alongside critical discussions by practicing social scientists. The book is motivated by the view that the philosophy of the social sciences cannot ignore the...
by
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,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His criticism of induction and his falsifiability criterion of demarcation between science and non-science were major contributions to the philosophy of science. Popper's broader philosophy of critical rationalism comprised...
by David Skrbina
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the pre-Socratic philosophy of ancient Greece. It was then...
by Sophie Roux
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .
Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy...