wyszukanych pozycji: 21
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals): And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education
ISBN: 9780415582711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Examining a broad range of issues - from computers in school to math education, from metaphor to morality - these essays are unified by Scheffler's conviction of the primacy of critical thought in education.
Examining a broad range of issues - from computers in school to math education, from metaphor to morality - these essays are unified by Scheffler's co...
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223,85 zł |
Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey
ISBN: 9780415681797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alongside providing a general historical and biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the work offers an in depth critical response to the philosophical doctrines of the four main thinkers of the pragmatist movement, with reference to the theories of meaning, knowledge and conduct which have come to define pragmatism. First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, W... |
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197,81 zł |
Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals): A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Methaphor in Language
ISBN: 9780415581332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another. Addressed to the fundamental task of logical and semantic explanation, the book employs an inscriptional methodology in the attempt to...
Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been ...
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229,06 zł |
Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals): An Essay in the Philosophy of Education
ISBN: 9780415581318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold mischief in social and educational practice. First published in 1985, Israel Scheffler's book aims to demythologise the concept of potential. He shows its roots in genuine aspects of human nature, but at the same time frees it from outworn philosophical myths by means of analytical reconstruction -...
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately re...
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223,85 zł |
Symbolic Worlds: Art, Science, Language, Ritual
ISBN: 9780521564250 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this important and broad-ranging book, Israel Scheffler explores the various ways in which the mind functions symbolically. This involves considering not only the worlds of the sciences and the arts, but also such activities as religious ritual and child's play. The book offers an integrated treatment of ambiguity and metaphor, analyses of play and ritual, and an extended discussion of the relations between scientific symbol systems and reality. What emerges is a picture of the basic symbol-forming character of the mind.
In this important and broad-ranging book, Israel Scheffler explores the various ways in which the mind functions symbolically. This involves consideri...
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450,26 zł |
Inquiries
ISBN: 9781625640833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. About the Contributor(s): Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University. He taught philosophy at Harvard from 1952 to 1992 and, from 1983 to 2003, was codirector, then director of the Philosophy of Education Research Center there. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education, and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society. Among his previous books are ""The Anatomy of Inquiry""( 1963), ""Four...
About the Contributor(s): Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University. He taught philoso...
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220,63 zł |
Of Human Potential: An Essay in the Philosophy of Education
ISBN: 9780415581103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners. This book aims to demythologize the concept of potential. It shows the roots of potential in genuine aspects of human nature, and offers an interpretation of policy-making in education.
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners. This book aims to demythologize the concept of pot...
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702,94 zł |
Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience
ISBN: 9780792332367 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has now written a more personal book, looking at education through the prism of his own early experience, primarily of religious learning. The book consists mainly of portraits of his early teachers, most of whom belonged to a transitional generation of immigrant Hebrew scholars -- unsung heroes of Jewish education on the American scene. Through the medium of such portraits of teaching personalities and styles, as well as firsthand descriptions of...
Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has ...
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388,20 zł |
The Anatomy of Inquiry (Routledge Revivals): Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science
ISBN: 9780415739610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1963, this title considers the philosophical problems encountered when attempting to provide a clear and general explanation of scientific principles, and the basic confrontation between such principles and experience. Beginning with a detailed introduction that considers various approaches to the philosophy and theory of science, Israel Scheffler then divides his study into three key sections - Explanation, Significance and Confirmation - that explore how these complex issues involved have been dealt with in contemporary research. This title, by one of America's leading...
First published in 1963, this title considers the philosophical problems encountered when attempting to provide a clear and general explanation of sci...
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598,80 zł |
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals): And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education
ISBN: 9780415581530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This title comprises 14 of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty but taken rather as the capactity to grasp principles and purposes.
This title comprises 14 of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending ...
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702,94 zł |
Symbolic Worlds: Art, Science, Language, Ritual
ISBN: 9780521052306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Israel Scheffler explores the various ways in which the mind functions symbolically.
Israel Scheffler explores the various ways in which the mind functions symbolically.
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216,16 zł |
Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781405191708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and builds upon a half century of philosophical work by the noted philosopher Israel Scheffler.
Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and builds upon a half century of philosophical work by the noted philosopher Israel Sche...
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147,71 zł |
Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience
ISBN: 9780792332329 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has now written a more personal book, looking at education through the prism of his own early experience, primarily of religious learning. The book consists mainly of portraits of his early teachers, most of whom belonged to a transitional generation of immigrant Hebrew scholars -- unsung heroes of Jewish education on the American scene. Through the medium of such portraits of teaching personalities and styles, as well as firsthand descriptions of...
Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has ...
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388,20 zł |
Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey
ISBN: 9780415679336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text is a critical introduction to the work of four philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alongside providing a biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the work offers a critical response to the philosophical doctrines of the four thinkers of the pragmatist movement.
This text is a critical introduction to the work of four philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alon...
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755,01 zł |
Gallery of Scholars: A Philosopher's Recollections
ISBN: 9781402027093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book offers a personal account of scholars in philosophy and education with whom I have had the good fortune to interact during the course of my half century at Harvard University and elsewhere. My aim in writing this account is threefold: ?rst, to recapture for myself the pleasure of their memorable company for its own sake, secondly, to have occasion to re?ect on the educational impact of their teaching, and, ?nally, to counteract the prevalent amnesia of universities by recalling the conduct of scholars of past generations who still have things to teach us. Iowe thanks to many people...
This book offers a personal account of scholars in philosophy and education with whom I have had the good fortune to interact during the course of my ...
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388,20 zł |
Reason and Teaching (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415739641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This title, first published in 1973, brings together a variety of papers by Israel Scheffler, one of America's leading educational philosophers. The essays each stress the importance of critical thought and independent judgement to the organization of educational activities. In the first section, Scheffler adopts a metaphilosophical approach, emphasizing the role of philosophy in educational thought. A number of key concepts are dealt with next, including the study of education and its relation to theoretical disciplines, philosophical interpretations of teaching, and the education of...
This title, first published in 1973, brings together a variety of papers by Israel Scheffler, one of America's leading educational philosophers. The e...
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755,01 zł |
Gallery of Scholars: A Philosopher's Recollections
ISBN: 9781402026799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book offers a personal account of scholars in philosophy and education with whom I have had the good fortune to interact during the course of my half century at Harvard University and elsewhere. My aim in writing this account is threefold: ?rst, to recapture for myself the pleasure of their memorable company for its own sake, secondly, to have occasion to re?ect on the educational impact of their teaching, and, ?nally, to counteract the prevalent amnesia of universities by recalling the conduct of scholars of past generations who still have things to teach us. Iowe thanks to many people...
This book offers a personal account of scholars in philosophy and education with whom I have had the good fortune to interact during the course of my ...
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388,20 zł |
Visions of Jewish Education
ISBN: 9780521528993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Six leading scholars--representing Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and secular perspectives--formulate their variant models of an ideal Jewish education for the contemporary world. This book addresses the multiple challenges of the open society to Jewish continuity by considering different versions of Jewish education appropriate for our time. It emphasizes the continuity of theory and practice, translating theory into practice as well as articulating theory embodied in practice. The book shows how all religious and ethnic communities might deepen the impact of their educational programs.
Six leading scholars--representing Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and secular perspectives--formulate their variant models of an ideal Jewish educati...
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243,03 zł |
Reason and Teaching
ISBN: 9780415739665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This title, first published in 1973, brings together a variety of papers by Israel Scheffler, one of America's leading educational philosophers. The essays each stress the importance of critical thought and independent judgement to the organization of educational activities. In the first section, Scheffler adopts a metaphilosophical approach, emphasizing the role of philosophy in educational thought. A number of key concepts are dealt with next, including the study of education and its relation to theoretical disciplines, philosophical interpretations of teaching, and the education of...
This title, first published in 1973, brings together a variety of papers by Israel Scheffler, one of America's leading educational philosophers. The e...
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197,81 zł |
The Anatomy of Inquiry: Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science
ISBN: 9780415739627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1963, this title considers the philosophical problems encountered when attempting to provide a clear and general explanation of scientific principles, and the basic confrontation between such principles and experience. Beginning with a detailed introduction that considers various approaches to the philosophy and theory of science, Israel Scheffler then divides his study into three key sections - Explanation, Significance and Confirmation - that explore how these complex issues involved have been dealt with in contemporary research. This title, by one of America's leading...
First published in 1963, this title considers the philosophical problems encountered when attempting to provide a clear and general explanation of sci...
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156,16 zł |