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Book Synopsis The Later Works, 1925-1953 by : John Dewey
Download or read book The Later Works, 1925-1953 written by John Dewey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dewey's Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925. Irwin Edman wrote at that time that "with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes." In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that "Dewey's Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings." The meticulously edited text published here as the first volume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953 spans that entire period in Dewey's thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the book's history: Dewey's unfinished new introduction written between 1947 and 1949, edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Dewey's unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word 'experience' understood. He wrote in his 1951 draft for a new introduction: "Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term 'experience' because of my growing realization that the historical obstacles which prevented understanding of my use of 'experience' are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term 'culture' because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience."
Book Synopsis The Process of Government by : Arthur F. Bentley
Download or read book The Process of Government written by Arthur F. Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a sense of tremendous social activity taking place, and a feeling that all the politics of the country, so to speak, were drifting across [his] desk. This prompted Bentley to develop an analysis of group interests, which he believed to be the true dictators of government decisions.He was hailed on methodological grounds as an early supporter of the behavioral revolution, which called for the use of natural scientific methods in the social sciences and for offering a group theory of politics. Bentley's implicit critique of narrow empiricism reflects the diverse influences of Dilthey, Simmel, and Dewey. The Process of Government was virtually ignored until the post-World War II period, but is now regarded as a classic in political science.
Book Synopsis Behavior Theory and Philosophy by : Kennon A. Lattal
Download or read book Behavior Theory and Philosophy written by Kennon A. Lattal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has three goals with respect to the interplay between philosophy and behavioral psychology's experimental, applied, and interpretive levels of knowing. It aims to examine core principles in the philosophy of science, as they are interpreted by and relate to behavioral psychology; how these core principles interact with different problem areas in the study of human behavior; and how experimental, applied, and interpretive analyses complement one another to advance the understanding of behavior and, in so doing, also the philosophy of science.
Book Synopsis The Physiology of Truth by : Jean-Pierre Changeux
Download or read book The Physiology of Truth written by Jean-Pierre Changeux and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for a coherent and universal theory of human rights. On this view, belief in objective knowledge is not a mere ideological slogan or a naive confusion; it is a characteristic feature of human cognition throughout evolution, and the scientific method its most sophisticated embodiment. Seeking to reconcile science and humanism, Changeux holds that the capacity to recognize truths that are independent of subjective personal experience constitutes the foundation of a human civil society.
Book Synopsis The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 16, 1925 - 1953 by : John Dewey
Download or read book The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 16, 1925 - 1953 written by John Dewey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescripts, essays, and an authoritative edition of Knowing and the Known, Dewey's collaborative work with Arthur F. Bentley. In an illuminating Introduction T. Z. Lavine defines the collaboration's three goals--the "construction of a new language for behavioral inquiry," "a critique of formal logicians, in defense of Dewey's Logic, " and "a critique of logical positivism." In Dewey's words: "Largely due to Bentley, I've finally got the nerve inside of me to do what I should have done years ago." "What Is It to Be a Linguistic Sign or Name?" and "Values, Valuations, and Social Facts, ' both written in 1945, are published here for the first time.
Book Synopsis Toward a Sociology of Education by : John Beck
Download or read book Toward a Sociology of Education written by John Beck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider educational practice both within and beyond formal educational contexts, this book broadens the character of sociological inquiry in education. The editors bring together material they have found valuable when working with students of education and sociology at all levels. Many of these articles and extracts are either inaccessible or have not been reprinted. The collection should stimulate inquiry about the assumptions underlying current debates on curriculum, streaming, school organization, methods of teachin, and preconceived notions of ability.
Book Synopsis Rorty & Pragmatism by : Richard Rorty
Download or read book Rorty & Pragmatism written by Richard Rorty and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rorty and Pragmatism, this highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher responds to several of his most prominent critics, representing a wide range of backgrounds and concerns. Each of these critical challenges raises significant questions about Rorty's philosophical outlook. Whether or not one agrees with all of his positions, his replies are consequential. They provide insight into Rorty's thought, its development, and his sense of the future of philosophy.
Book Synopsis Illinois Biographical Dictionary by : Caryn Hannan
Download or read book Illinois Biographical Dictionary written by Caryn Hannan and published by State History Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies on interesting and influential persons who have lived in the state of Illinois.
Book Synopsis Improving Intercultural Interactions by : Kenneth Cushner
Download or read book Improving Intercultural Interactions written by Kenneth Cushner and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an educational model for counselling, this volume presents training modules relevant for a variety of circumstances from the world of business to that of education. Included throughout are practical exercises and self-assessment questions which promote cultural awareness. The volume is a companion to Improving Intercultural Interactions - the third volume in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series. It builds upon Volume Three to address a new cluster of topics specific to various types of intercultural experience. These include: ethics; ethnocultural identification; conflict and mediation across cultures; empathy; and cross-cultural communication.
Book Synopsis The Half-Life of Facts by : Samuel Arbesman
Download or read book The Half-Life of Facts written by Samuel Arbesman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives. He takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries.
Book Synopsis How to Rethink Psychology by : Bernard Guerin
Download or read book How to Rethink Psychology written by Bernard Guerin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s forty years of experience in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology argues that to understand people we need to know more about their contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research presently allow. Drawing upon insights from sources as diverse as Freud, CBT, quantum physics, and Zen philosophy, the book offers several fascinating new metaphors for thinking about people and, in doing so, endeavors to create a psychology for the future. The book begins by discussing the significance of the key metaphor underlying mainstream psychology today – the ‘particle’ or ‘causal’ metaphor – and explains the need for a shift towards new ‘wave’ or ‘contextual’ metaphors in order to appreciate how individual and social actions truly function. It explores new metaphors for thinking about the relationship between language and reality, and teaches the reader how they might reimagine the processes involved in the act of thinking itself. The book concludes with a consideration of how these new metaphors might be applied to practical methods of research and understanding change today. How to Rethink Psychology is important reading for upper-level and postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of social psychology, critical psychology, and the philosophy of psychology, and will especially appeal to those studying behavior analysis and radical behaviorism. It has also been written for the general reading public who enjoy exploring new ideas in science and thinking.
Book Synopsis Fundamental Facts for the Teacher by : Elmer Burritt Bryan
Download or read book Fundamental Facts for the Teacher written by Elmer Burritt Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis AI Game Development by : Alex J. Champandard
Download or read book AI Game Development written by Alex J. Champandard and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With game players expecting greater intelligence, efficiency, and realism with non-player characters, AI plays an ever-increasing important role in game development. This is a tremendous challenge for game developers in methodology, software design, and programming. Creating autonomous synthetic creatures that can adapt in games requires a different kind of understanding of AI than the classical approach used by current game programmers. The Nouvelle Game AI approach presented in this book focuses on creating embodied "animats" that behave in an intelligent and realistic manner. In particular, learning AI is generating much interest among the game development community, as these modern techniques can be used to optimize the development process. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences by : Robert S. Cohen
Download or read book Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to abstract natural science and psychology. The core focus of the study is the attempt to elucidate how and under what conditions scientific knowledge about social facts, empirically justified and theoretically embedded, can be obtained. The empirical basis of knowledge within the social sciences forms a phenomenological concept of experience. According to Kaufmann, this concept of experience exhibits a complex structure. Within the meaning-interpretation of human action as the core of knowledge in the social sciences, this structure reaches out across the isolated act of verification toward the synthesis of external and internal experiences. The book opens with a detailed and useful introduction by Ingeborg K. Helling, which introduces the historical and theoretical background of Kaufmann's study and specifically illuminates his relation to Alfred Schütz and John Dewey. Finally, it contains interviews with and letters to members of his family, colleagues and students.
Book Synopsis American Political Scientists by : Glenn H. Utter
Download or read book American Political Scientists written by Glenn H. Utter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary offers the only comprehensive collection of profiles of American political scientists, each of whom contributed significantly to the intellectual development of American political science from its beginnings in the late-19th century to the present. This second edition includes 22 new and 110 revised entries, reflecting new scholarship that emerged during the 1990s. Numerous experts helped the editors develop this consensus group of the 193 political scientists who have made the most important theoretical contributions over the years, with attention to varied approaches and the different subfields. Alphabetically arranged entries focus on the main ideas and major works by each scholar, listing list the most important publications by and about the individual. There are numerous cross-references to show how the work of one scholar has influenced another in the discipline. Appendices list the political scientists by degree-granting institutions and by major fields. A short bibliography points to important general readings about the profession. A general index makes this major reference easily accessible for broad interdisciplinary research.
Book Synopsis Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications by : Costin Badica
Download or read book Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications written by Costin Badica and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2013, held in Craiova, Romania, in September 2013. The 72 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. Conference papers are organized in 16 technical sessions, covering the following topics: intelligent e-learning, classification and clustering methods, web intelligence and interaction, agents and multi-agent systems, social networks, intelligent knowledge management, language processing systems, modeling and optimization techniques, evolutionary computation, intelligent and group decision making, swarm intelligence, data mining techniques and applications, cooperative problem solving, collective intelligence for text mining and innovation, collective intelligence for social understanding and mining, and soft methods in collective intelligence.
Book Synopsis Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families by : Rochelle L. Dalla
Download or read book Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families written by Rochelle L. Dalla and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals and families to our country, and how these contribute to the agency, growth, and vitality of America. This book was intended to move the discussion of immigration, generally speaking, and of immigrant families specifically, to include how and in what ways new immigrants to America (those arriving within the past thirty years) have changed the social and geocultural landscape of this country in positive, beneficial, and valuable ways. The book is comprised of nineteen chapters written by scholars with expertise on immigrant families representing every corner of the globe_from Africa and India to Europe and Central America. In each chapter, the unique factors, processes, and worldviews which help shape and mold the immigrant experience are articulated, as are the strengths immigrant newcomers bring to America. In addition, beyond explicating the strengths of immigrant families, each of the nineteen contributing chapters focuses on the implications of these strengths for families, communities, and the culture. Thus, the book provides a springboard from which to answer the application and 'what now' questions for those who work with immigrant families in a variety of capacities_from academicians and researchers to educators and human-service providers.
