Tag: Debate

Free Download Cornelius Castoriadis, "Democracy and Relativism: A Debate"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1786610949 | EPUB | pages: 142 | 0.3 mb
In this vibrant debate with intellectuals influenced by Marcel Mauss, including Alain Caillé and Chantal Mouffe, the incisive Greek-French activist and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis addresses the challenge of critical thinking in an international context.

Free Download The Foundational Debate: Complexity and Constructivity in Mathematics and Physics By Roland Omnès (auth.), Werner Depauli-Schimanovich, Eckehart Köhler, Friedrich Stadler (eds.)
1995 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 9048146178 | PDF | 14 MB
Constructibility and complexity play central roles in recent research in computer science, mathematics and physics. For example, scientists are investigating the complexity of computer programs, constructive proofs in mathematics and the randomness of physical processes. But there are different approaches to the explication of these concepts. This volume presents important research on the state of this discussion, especially as it refers to quantum mechanics. This `foundational debate’ in computer science, mathematics and physics was already fully developed in 1930 in the Vienna Circle. A special section is devoted to its real founder Hans Hahn, referring to his contribution to the history and philosophy of science. The documentation section presents articles on the early Philipp Frank and on the Vienna Circle in exile. Reviews cover important recent literature on logical empiricism and related topics.

Free Download Émilie Frenkiel, "Conditional Democracy: The Contemporary Debate on Political Reform in Chinese Universities"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1907301690 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 1.0 mb
This book focuses on politically committed Chinese academics who have taken part in the debate on political reform in China since the 1990s. Within the boundaries dictated by (self-)censorship, the debate on political reform in Chinese universities reveals the great diversity of aspirations for change among the elites. Mapping this debate enables us to understand the various conceptions of the current regime held by intellectuals throughout China, and to identify the fault lines that have materialized since the June Fourth repression. Analysing these scholars’ discussions, which have an impact on political elites and public opinion, and which reflect their respective yearnings and fears, albeit in a distorted manner, is an engaging angle from which to appreciate the diversity of approaches to the issue of China’s democratisation.

Free Download Jeroen van der Waal, "The Global City Debate Reconsidered: Economic Globalization in Contemporary Dutch Cities"
English | ISBN: 9089647600 | 2015 | 160 pages | PDF | 1123 KB
The idea of the "global city," which focuses on globalisation’s impact on the social, financial, and political reality of cities in advanced economies, has become widely influential in the decades since its introduction-and yet the major issues in the "global city debate" remain unresolved. This book provides a systematic overview of the debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as an argument for the need to test the framework’s empirical validity before the unresolved questions can be fruitfully addressed. By testing data from the Netherlands in the 1990s and 2000s, the author demonstrates the value of rigorous empirical scrutiny while offering fresh insights for the global city debate as a whole.

Free Download Socrates and the Gender Debate: How Gender Ideology Fails the Test of Common Sense by Andrew Duncan, Laura Dexter
English | July 12, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9CST1RS | 353 pages | MOBI | 0.53 Mb
All but 0.0182% of the human race is unequivocally male or female. Yet that distinction is irrelevant in determining who we are attracted to, our public persona or what we can achieve. The last few decades have seen a welcome increase in tolerance, close to the liberal ideal of ‘do what you want as long as you do no harm’.

Free Download Kevern Verney, "The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0719067618, 071906760X | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.6 mb
Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It provides a critical historiographical review of the very latest thinking and explains how and why research and discourse have evolved in the ways that they have.

Free Download Mica Pollock, "Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools"
English | ISBN: 0691148090 | 2010 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 461 KB
In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America’s schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today-and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it.

Free Download Backbench Debate Within the Conservative Party and Its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57 By Sue Onslow
1997 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0333656377 | PDF | 20 MB
This book examines Conservative backbench debate on European integration and British relations in the Middle East between 1948 and 1957. In seeking to compare the impact of a loose affiliation of Conservative MPs, an organized faction of longstanding and an ad-hoc pressure group, the text concentrates upon the Europeanists, the Suez Group and the Anti-Suez Group and considers their attempts to influence British foreign policy, using interviews with former parliamentarians and contemporary sources, published and unpublished.

Free Download The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 by Elizabeth Tunstall
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 3031588924 | 6 MB
This book examines the succession debate in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. It considers the succession question in its entirety, instead of dividing the topic into early or late periods as has been typically the case. Commencing with a consideration of the succession tracts and the laws which governed the succession, this book seeks to examine the matter in terms of its original sixteenth-century context and how the participants of the debate understood the issue. With the succession issue outlined, the main parties of the debate – those being the Queen, her Privy Council and Parliament – are considered in turn, exploring the effect of the succession debate upon English considerations of government and royal prerogative.

Free Download Shawn F. Briscoe, "Transcending the Game: Debate, Education, and Society"
English | ISBN: 0809339226 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 59 MB
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