Author: Justin W. Cook File Type: pdf This open access book explores the key dimensions of a future education system designed to enable individuals, schools, and communities to achieve the twin twenty-first century challenges of sustainability and human well-being. For much of the twentieth century, Western education systems prepared students to enter the workforce, contribute to society and succeed in relatively predictable contexts. Today, people are at the controls of the planetmaking decisions that are dramatically reshaping social, economic, and environmental systems at a global scale. What is educations purpose in this new reality? What and how must we learn now? The volatility and uncertainty caused by digitalization, globalization, and climate change weave a common backdrop through each chapter. Using case studies drawn from Finland and the US, chapter authors explore various aspects of learning and education system design through the lenses of sustainability and human well-being to evaluate how our understanding and practice of education must transform. Using their scholarly research and experience as practitioners, the authors propose new approaches to preparing learners for a new frontier of the human experience fraught with risks but full of opportunity. **

Author: Eugene Heath File Type: pdf The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how government contracts are handed out. Yet for as deep and complex a field as business ethics is, it has remained relatively isolated from the larger, global history of moral philosophy. This book aims to bridge that gap, reaching deep into the past and traveling the globe to reinvigorate and deepen the basis of business ethics. Spanning the history of western philosophy as well as looking toward classical Chinese thought and medieval Islamic philosophy, this volume provides business ethicists a unified source of clear, accurate, and compelling accounts of how the ideas of foundational thinkersfrom Aristotle to Friedrich Hayek to Amartya Senrelate to wealth, commerce, and markets. The essays illuminate perspectives that have often been ignored or forgotten, informing discussion in fresh and often unexpected ways. In doing so, the authors not only throw into relief common misunderstandings and misappropriations often endemic to business ethics but also set forth rich moments of contention as well as novel ways of approaching complex ethical problems. Ultimately, this volume provides a bedrock of moral thought that will move business ethics beyond the ever-changing opinions of headline-driven debate. **

Author: Heather A. Horst File Type: pdf Anthropology has two main tasks to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become. Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another, from avatars and disability cultural differences in how we use social networking sites or practise religion the practical consequences of the digital for politics, museums, design, space and development to new online world and gaming communities. The book also explores the moral universe of the digital, from new anxieties to open-source ideals. Digital Anthropology reveals how only the intense scrutiny of ethnography can overturn assumptions about the impact of digital culture and reveal its profound consequences for everyday life. Combining the clarity of a textbook with an engaging style which conveys a passion for these new frontiers of enquiry, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies and sociology. **

Author: Ingemar Nordin File Type: pdf In Using Knowledge On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine Ingemar Nordin analyses the philosophical problems and nature of science, technology, and medicine. The main focus of the book is on the structure and dynamics of technological change. What implications do the goals of technology have for its rationality? How can the pragmatic problem of induction be solved within a fallibilistic and skeptical context? Nordin shows that the social context is of vital importance for the goal of technology (usefulness) and its rational development, with important consequences for how to design a techno policy in society. A rational technological development needs technological pluralism since knowledge of what is useful is scattered among millions of users.**ReviewEven some of the warmest admirers of Karl Poppers skeptical interpretation of theoretical science have balked at his solution to what he called the pragmatic problem of induction. Almost unanimously they have concluded that there can be no purely deductivist understanding of rational action. Ingemar Nordin knows better, and here sets out an approach to practice in which inductive considerations are never allowed to intrude. It is embedded in a thorough investigation of a host of problems concerned with the relation between science and technology, including medicine, and it deserves to be welcomed as the most detailed discussion of these problems that we have. In the skeptical spirit of deductivism, I am delighted to recommend it. (David Miller, University of Warwick) This is a primer in the philosophy of technology. It tackles the main philosophical problems raised by technology, and does so in plain language, which makes it an ideal textbook for engineering, medicine, business, and humanities students. (Mario Bunge, McGill University) Ingemar Nordin has in this book made a fresh and original contribution to the philosophy of technology. He emphasizes that technology, although dependent on science, is something far beyond science. The concept of truth that is so central to science has a less prominent place in technology, where instead functionality and usefulness are the most crucial concepts. Technologists often knowingly use approximate, and hence untrue, theories and models for constructing techniques. Nordin develops these fundamental concepts of technology in a highly fruitful way, partly by engaging himself in a fascinating debate with some of the most prominent contemporary philosophers of science and technology. (Lennart Nordenfelt, Ersta-Skondal-Bracke University College) About the Author Ingemar Nordin is professor of philosophy at Linkoping University.