1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462047503321

Autore

Herreid Clyde Freeman

Titolo

Science stories [[electronic resource] ] : using case studies to teach critical thinking / / Clyde Freeman Herreid, Nancy A. Schiller, Ky F. Herreid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arlingto, Va., : National Science Teachers Association, c2012

ISBN

1-936959-91-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchillerNancy A. <1957->

HerreidKy F. <1965->

Disciplina

507.1

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching

Critical thinking - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. The nature of science -- section 2. Historical cases -- section 3. Experimental design -- section 4. The scientific method meets unusual claims -- section 5. Science and society -- section 6. Science and the media -- section 7. Ethics and the scientific process.

Sommario/riassunto

Stories give life and substance to scientific methods and provide an inside look at scientists in action. Case studies deepen scientific understanding, sharpen critical-thinking skills, and help students see how science relates to their lives. In Science Stories, Clyde Freeman Herreid, Nancy Schiller, and Ky Herreid have organized case studies into categories such as historical cases, science and the media, and ethics and the scientific process.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790614103321

Autore

Fumerton Richard A. <1949->

Titolo

Knowledge, thought, and the case for dualism / / Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89274-6

1-107-28985-8

1-107-28929-7

1-107-55925-1

1-107-29418-5

1-107-29139-9

1-139-79540-6

1-107-29034-1

1-107-29311-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Classificazione

PHI004000

Disciplina

147/.4

Soggetti

Dualism

Materialism

Mind and body

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Distinctions: versions of physicalism and dualism -- 3. Ontological priorities: taking phenomenology seriously -- 4. Knowledge arguments revisited -- 5. Indirect thought and informative identity -- 6. An ontologically liberating skepticism: the last hope for physicalism -- 7. Objections and replies -- 8. The ubiquitous self: a brief postscript.

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under



relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind.