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  • Action, Ethics, and Responsibility

    Edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein ...
    Series series Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
    Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the "free will" problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives—metaphysics, ethics, action theory, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Innovative Voices in Education

    Engaging Diverse Communities

    by Shriya Adhikary, Jioanna Carjuzaa, Jesse Bethke Gomez, Waliha Gani, Debra Fulcher, Sean Grainger, Young-chan Han, Amineh Ahmed Hoti, Karyn Keenan, Nardos King, Sara Kugler, Graciela Rosas, Jeff Scanlan, Howie Schaffer, Andrea Sobel, Roni Silverstein, Stacie Stanley, Ashley Harris ...
    Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills. To take advantage of the unique opportunities that diversity brings, schools must value and effectively connect with students and families of all backgrounds. Committed educators are taking on this ... Read more

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  • Postpositivism and Educational Research

    by D. C. Phillips, Nicholas C. Burbules ...
    Series series Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series
    This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Relevance of Education

    by Jerome Bruner ...
    "Education is in a state of crisis. It has failed to respond to changing social needs—lagging behind rather than leading." The crisis that Jerome Bruner identifies in this volume admits of no easy solutions. But the noted American psychologist makes clear that educational reform must begin with the understanding of how a child acquires information and converts knowledge into action. Drawing on his ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

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  • Social Structure & Person

    by Talcott Parsons ...
    A Collection of essays which studies the theoretical problem of relationships between social structure and personality, and how these different relationships merit distinct treatment for particular purposes. Parsons concludes that in the larger picture, their interdependencies are so intimate that bringing them together in an interpretive synthesis is imperative if a balanced understanding of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    by Derk Pereboom ...
    Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic-desert sense at issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this kind of moral responsibility if indeterminism were true and the causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is possible that ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Experimental Philosophy

    Edited by Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichols ...
    Experimental philosophy is a new movement that seeks to return the discipline of philosophy to a focus on questions about how people actually think and feel. Departing from a long-standing tradition, experimental philosophers go out and conduct systematic experiments to reach a better understanding of people's ordinary intuitions about philosophically significant questions. Although the movement ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

    Working with Everyday Life Materials

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    This book is a ′survival guide′ for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.As living human beings in cultural worlds, we are constantly surrounded by ′data′ ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the 'best overview in the field' by the journal Teaching Philosophy and predicted to 'become the standard textbook in philosophy of education' by Educational Theory. This classic text, originally designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Language of Law School

    Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"

    by Elizabeth Mertz ...
    In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead. ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Open Your Eyes

    Deaf Studies Talking

    Edited by H-Dirksen L. Bauman ...
    This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places and probe the complex intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD