Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions.
This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date.
This book is a first attempt to unify and explain, through the language of pure mathematics called categories and sheaves, the mechanism of mental activities.
The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science).
Many different features of the world figure consciously in our perceptual experiences, in the sense that they make a subjective difference to those experiences.
In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat.
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "e;the central problem in the metaphysics of causation"e;: the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in the special sciences with the limited role of causation in physics.
Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms.
This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings.
A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own avenues of academic inquiry.
When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed.
Thought under Threat reveals and combats the forces diminishing the power and role of critical thinking, whether in our individual lives or collectively.
Our current intellectual system provides us with a far more complete and accurate understanding of nature and ourselves than was available in any previous society.
To claim to believe in God without accepting that God exists independently of human minds would mean reducing God to merely a human construct, thus not real enough for being the object of religious worship.
La propuesta metódica de la hermenéutica analógica, cuenta ya con una historia de más de 20 años (se presentó originalmente en el Congreso Nacional de Filosofía de 1993 en Cuernavaca) y una aplicación fecunda en muy diversas áreas de conocimiento.
Análisis y evaluación de la vigencia del pragmatismo en los distintos terrenos en los que ha trascendido, pero sin dejar de lado las raíces históricas de las que se nutre.
