by Anthony Carpi, Anne E. Egger (2011)
"Through a series of examples drawn from biology, climate science, geology, environmental science, and other disciplines, the chapters in this book demystify the process of science, and the work that scientists do. The authors highlight the many methods used in science and the common characteristics that unite them all as "science". The examples illustrate that science is a human endeavor, and research is enriched and enlivened by the diversity of scientists themselves. This book is an excellent companion to any college-level introductory science course, emphasizing how we know what we know. It will also serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduate students preparing to do research for the first time or for anyone who might be interested in learning more about the process of science and scientific research. -- Book blurb.
Martin Albrow
This study argues that a history of the present needs an explicit epochal theory to understand the transition to the global age. When globality displaces modernity there is a general decentring of state, government, economy, culture and community.
David Ingram
In his magnum opus, *Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns*, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwork, placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas. (Source: Yale University Press)
Emmett L. Williams and George Mulfinger, Jr
This book is not just another textbook. It has been designed by Christians "from the ground up" for use specifically in Christian schools. For some time we have felt that it was simply not enough to put a child in a Christian school where he took a course using humanistic books, with hopefully some supplementary material from a Christian viewpoint. We have attempted to put science in its proper historical and biblical perspective: it is the work of men and is thus imperfect and changing. As scientists, we have found that true science always reaffirms the inerrancy of the Scriptures. - Introduction to teacher's guide.
Raimo Tuomela
This book develops a systematic philosophical theory of social action and group phenomena, in the process presenting detailed analyses of such central social notions as "we-attitude" (especially "we-intention" and mutual belief, social norm, joint action, and - most important - group goal, group belief, and group action). Humans are social beings whose accounts of their social life inherently rely on social group notions involving the core concept of "we." The crucial notions for understanding macro-level group notions are shown to be joint action, we-attitude (especially we-intention and mutual belief), social norm, and group-commitment-creating "authority system" (roughly, a system for the formation of joint intentions). Though this is a philosophical work, it presents a unified conceptual framework that may be useful to social scientists, especially social psychologists, as well as philosophers.