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  • Theory and Practice in the Interdisciplinary Production and Reproduction of Scientific Knowledge

    ID in the XXI Century

    Edited by Olga Pombo, Klaus Gärtner, Jorge Jesuíno ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses the urgent need for a large and systematic analysis of current interdisciplinary (ID) research and practice. It demonstrates how ID is essentially a cognitive phenomenon, something different from the frivolous and inconsequential attempt of trying to overcome the disciplinary competencies and exigencies. By ID, the authors show that it is a manifestation of the transversal ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Epistemology, Knowledge and the Impact of Interaction

    Edited by Juan Redmond, Olga Pombo Martins, Ángel Nepomuceno Fernández ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    With this volume of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science edited by S. Rahman et al. a challenging dialogue is being continued. The series’ first volume argued that one way to recover the connections between logic, philosophy of sciences, and sciences is to acknowledge the host of alternative logics which are currently being developed. The present volume focuses on four key ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

    Edited by John Symons, Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath’s conception of the unity of science. Some of the leading scholars of Neurath’s work, along with many prominent philosophers of science critically examine his place in the history of philosophy of science and evaluate the relevance of his work for contemporary debates concerning the unity of science. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Special Sciences and the Unity of Science

    Edited by Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons, Shahid Rahman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Science is a dynamic process in which the assimilation of new phenomena, perspectives, and hypotheses into the scientific corpus takes place slowly. The apparent disunity of the sciences is the unavoidable consequence of this gradual integration process. Some thinkers label this dynamical circumstance a ‘crisis’. However, a retrospective view of the practical results of the scientific enterprise ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
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  • From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship

    Essays and Reflections

    by Prof. Michael Byram ...
    Series Book 17 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    This collection of essays and reflections starts from an analysis of the purposes of foreign language teaching and argues that this should include educational objectives which are ultimately similar to those of education for citizenship. It does so by a journey through reflections on what is possible and desirable in the classroom and how language teaching has a specific role in education systems ... Read more

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  • Technosystem

    The Social Life of Reason

    by Andrew Feenberg ...
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  • Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education

    Current Thinking

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    Rethinking Multilingualism and Interculturality

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    Edited by Ofelia Garcia, Nelson Flores, Massimiliano Spotti ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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