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Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p.
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- 171.7 SCH r
Information—Consciousness—Reality : how a new understanding of the univer…
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of the cosmos. From this understanding, the current scientific paradigm emerged, ultimately discover…
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- 9783030036331
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- XXIV, 662 p.
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- 113 GLA i
Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- 9780520298019
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- xvi, 280p. : ill.
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- 181.92 KEY l
European heritage, dialogue and digital practices
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices focuses on the intersection of heritage, dialogue and digital culture in the context of Europe. Responding to the increased emphasis on the potential for heritage and digital technologies to foster dialogue and engender communitarian identities in Europe, the book explores what kind of role digital tools, platforms and practices play in supporti…
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- 9780429053511
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- XV, 130 p
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- Critical Heritages of Europe
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- 069.094 GAL e
The philosophy of mathematics education
This survey provides a brief and selective overview of research in the philosophy of mathematics education. It asks what makes up the philosophy of mathematics education, what it means, what questions it asks and answers, and what is its overall importance and use? It provides overviews of critical mathematics education, and the most relevant modern movements in the philosophy of mathematics. A…
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- 9783319405698
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- 26 p.
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- 510.71 PHI p
Manifesto for the humanities : transforming doctoral education in good enough…
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanitie…
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- 9780472073047
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- xi, 225p. : ill.
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- 378.2 SMI m
Thinking literature across continents
'Thinking Literature across Continents' finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of literature; rather, they allow their different backgrounds and lively disagreements to stimulate…
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- 9780822373698
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- xiii, 316p. : ill.
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- 809 GHO t
Arguing with anthropology : an introduction to critical theories of the gift
Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly ori…
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- 9781134523450
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- x, 244p. : ill.
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- 394 SYK a
A scholarly contribution to educational praxis
This publication contains original research targeting scientific specialists in the field of education. Not only is the disposition of its research endeavours grounded on a philosophical basis, it is also embedded in the empirical. The research methodology of each chapter emanates from applicable philosophical assumptions in the form of an applicable theoretical and conceptual framework. The la…
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- 9780620730600
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- xxxii, 336p. : ill,
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- 370.1 SCH s
Understanding perspectivism : scientific challenges and methodological prospects
This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in the philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research, just for a few examples. What are…
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- 9781315145198
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- x, 200p. : ill.
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- 501 UND u
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