A Philosopher’s Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education
How can teachers pursue the creative goals of an ideal university within real bureaucracies? Larvor reflects on teaching undergraduates, experts, and prisoners, insisting on the importance of the affective dimension of learning and the unpredictability of the student encounter.
A Philosophical Approach to Creation Process
This book is about creation as conceived by the classical Greeks. Whether a plan for a form of government or a work of art, this sort of creation is used to do something that has never been done before.
Molecular structure is fundamental to chemistry, yet no one has ever seen it, nor can it be derived from quantum mechanics. Is what chemists take to be molecular structure real? This book addresses this head-on, exploring the grounds of a core concept of chemistry.
A Philosophical Look at Keynes and Hayek
This book examines the crossing between philosophy, semiotics, and economics. Reconsidering the contributions of Keynes and Hayek through the semiotic approach of Charles S. Peirce, it creates new conceptual frameworks to rethink the paths to complexity in our world.
This book applies Saint Augustine’s ethics to contemporary social justice. In dialogue with modern political philosophy, it offers new frameworks for addressing 21st-century challenges and prepares readers for today’s most urgent social justice debates.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ethics and morality, setting out what the field is about, what its demands are, and the rationale for its injunctions. Without being contentious, it provides a comprehensive account of what the contentions are about.
This phonetic investigation of the vowel system of Civili, an indigenous language of Gabon, analyzes articulation and perception. It contributes to establishing a credible orthography, with findings significant for linguistics and human language technologies.
A Physicist’s Journey between Science and Faith
Science and religion are often presented as two opposing universes. This volume argues that the reality is different: science and faith are both expressions of the human desire to know. They are not mutually exclusive, but invite a close and constructive dialogue.
A Pluralistic Universe
This new edition of William James’s classic, A Pluralistic Universe, critiques monism and explores philosophical alternatives. Featuring a new introduction and annotations, it casts light on James’s legacy and its relevance to contemporary American society.
A Poetics of Homecoming
This study confronts humanity’s state of homelessness by rigorously exploring Heidegger’s thought. Weighing his ideas against scathing critiques from Adorno and Lévinas, it reveals how his discourse on homecoming offers insights for humanity at large.
This book is a study of political philosophy arguing that language gives origin to the state. By extending the distance of communication, humans form large communities, leading to the state’s formation. Language is also the key to realizing freedom, equality, peace, and justice.
This book is your guide to the political language of the Middle East. It is a tool for translators and interpreters to master the language, combining an academic overview of translating and interpreting with six key themes related to politics.
This work presents a glossary that allows the reader to appreciate positive diversity and interculturalism through multilingualism. It also contains key facts about the languages at hand, as well as useful phrases, weekdays, numbers, and elements of grammar.
This book presents a case study of Jesuit missions in South America that challenges the “virgin soil” epidemic model. It shows that catastrophic mortality varied and occurred generations after first contact, concluding that demographic change was far more complex.
A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature
This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
A Practical Guide to Promoting Social Participation in Seniors
An instruction manual for community workers and researchers on community-based participatory action research. This guide provides principles for working with older communities worldwide, with key contributions for work in lower-to-middle income countries.
This text serves to help a potentially uninformed retail trader understand more about financial markets, and assist them in gaining the technical skills required to profit from trading. It represents a beginner’s guide to trading, with a core focus on stocks and currencies.
A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
Can scientific principles be a priori yet still change? This book argues they can be, proposing a novel concept: a priori revisability. Using case studies from physics and geometry, it reveals a new dynamic of science driven by non-empirical moves.
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