Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays (Mitcham Carl)(Pevná vazba)

Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays (Mitcham Carl)(Pevná vazba)

This book takes steps to develop a philosophy of engineering not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate critical reflection among engineers and non-engineers alike about our engineering

Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda (Van de Poel Ibo)(Paperback)

Part 1: Philosophy Editors: Carl Mitcham and Michael Davis 2. Distinguishing architects from engineers. A pilot study in differences between engineers and other technologists, Michael Davis 3. The rise of philosophy of engineering in the East and the West, Li Bo-con 4. Multiple facets of philosophy

Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy (Mitcham Carl)(Paperback)

What does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a comprehensive, critical introduction to the philosophy of technology and a discussion of its sources and uses. Tracing the changing meaning of 'technology' from

Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays (Nishida Kitaro)(Paperback)

These translations of Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness and the intelligible world are accompanied with a scholarly introduction that explains the author's ideas and views on Western philosophy.Prominent in intellectual circles in the early 20th century, Nishida did much to compare the

Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy (Ambury James M.)(Pevná vazba)

Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy is the first volume of essays dedicated to the whole question of self-knowledge and its role in Platonic philosophy. It brings together established and rising scholars from every interpretative school of Plato studies, and a variety of texts

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism (Maida Carl a.)(Pevná vazba)

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban communities respond to the challenges of demographic and socioeconomic change in an environmentally-sustainable

Lexicon of Garden and Landscape Architecture (Vroom Meto J.)(Pevná vazba)

A Landscape Architecture Lexicon with definitions of terms and critical essays Abstraction and hedge, interaction and landmark, labyrinth and synthesis, pond and utopia -- the reader is confronted with a tremendous variety of terms, from the description of the various elements of a garden all the

The Philosophy of Reenchantment (Meijer Michiel)(Pevná vazba)

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. It features chapters from leading contributors to the debate about reenchantment, including Charles Taylor, John Cottingham, Akeel

Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) (Heidegger Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical 'turning.' In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the essential dimensions of his thinking on the

Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites (Finn Suki)(Pevná vazba)

Thirty leading women philosophers draw on and advance the rich heritage of the philosophical tradition to explore topics of pressing interest for today. Women of Ideas is edited by Suki Finn, based upon interviews by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, from Philosophy Bites, the world's foremost

Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (Critchley Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers 'A genial exercise in public philosophy by an admittedly tonsorially challenged practitioner. . . . Ever current, Critchley closes with a meditation on Covid-19 and the anxieties it induces. . . . Along

Philosophy of Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries (Bahler Brock)(Pevná vazba)

Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentieth century Philipe Aries's

Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy (The School of Life)(Pevná vazba)

A fun and engaging book designed to harness and develop children's natural philosophical interest.Without prompting children often ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of life. Yet all too often their inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the

Visualizing Nature: Essays on Truth, Spririt, and Philosophy (Kestenbaum Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring

Writings on Art 1980-2005: By Robert Storr (Storr Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The first collection of essays by one of America's decisive and most lucid critical voicesFollowing on from the much-lauded Robert Storr: Interviews on Art, Heni presents the first in a two-volume publication featuring the collected writings of Robert Storr, one of the world's leading art critics

Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration (Watz Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity,

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire (Mishra Pankaj)(Pevná vazba)

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. Decades of violence and chaos have produced a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about an

What Would Be Different: Figures of Possibility in Adorno (MacDonald Iain)(Pevná vazba)

Possibility is a concept central to both philosophy and social theory. But in what philosophical soil, if any, does the possibility of a better society grow? At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, What Would Be Different looks to Theodor W. Adorno to reflect on the relationship

Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Lear Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry--psychoanalysis and moral philosophy--that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live.Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient

Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account (Harrison Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

Offers a philosophical history of bridges--both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts--and the acts of cultural connection they embody. 'Always,' wrote Philip Larkin, 'it is by bridges that we live.' Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the

Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering (Kulacki Francis A.)(Pevná vazba)

Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis (Bloom Harold)(Pevná vazba)

Each title features: - Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism- Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- An introductory essay by Harold

Tower Bridge - History * Engineering * Design (Powell Kenneth)(Pevná vazba)

A major new illustrated study of a remarkable piece of architecture and engineering, and one of Britain's most iconic

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know - Ben Dupré

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the philosophical questions around knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics and justice that have engaged the minds of thinkers from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato's cave to virtue ethics, theories of