Kita meyakini bahwa Pancasila sebagai dasar negara Republik Indonesia memiliki keistimewaan yang tidak dimiliki oleh negara-negara lain. Nilai-nilai filosofis yang terkandung di dalamnya serta praktik konstitusi UUD NRI 1945 sejalan dengan nilai-nilai keislaman serta kenegaraan sekaligus. Hal itu lah kemudian menjadikan produk hukum Indonesia dapat mengakomodir kepentingan umat Islam dalam …
Buku ini sebenarnya berangkat dari fenomena maraknya majelis shalawat di Kabupaten Probolinggo Jawa Timur yang memiliki kesamaan dengan majelis-majelis shalawat dan taklim yang tersebar di berbagai daerah di Indonesia. Maraknya majelis-majelis shalawat itu memperlihatkan bahwa ada antusiasme yang mash berkembang di kalangan komunitas Muslim untuk mengekspresikan kecintaan mereka kepada Rasulull…
Ethics and Educational Technology explores the creation and implementation of learning technologies through an applied ethical lens. The success of digital tools and platforms in today’s multi-faceted learning and performance contexts is dependent not only on effective design and pedagogical principles but, further, on an awareness of these technologies’ interactions with and implications f…
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas offers a comprehensive overview of Western Philosophy, Eastern Influences, Feminist Philosophy and Postcolonial thought. Known for its engaging, conversational writing style, each chapter provides clear introductions to even the most difficult philosophical concepts and includes selected primary readings from some of the most important thinkers of all time.
This is the first introductory textbook of its kind devoted to philosophy of psychiatry, offering a thorough and accessible investigation of the conceptual and philosophical problems at the heart of psychiatric practice and research. While it applies some of the long-standing concerns of philosophy to the mental health professions, it also investigates philosophical problems and issues that hav…
This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language. Each entry addresses a paradox, a longstanding puzzle, or a major theme that has emerged in the field from the last 150 years, tracing overlap with issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics, political philosophy, and literature. Each of the 50 entries is written as a piece th…
What do philosophy and computer science have in common? It turns out, quite a lot! In providing an introduction to computer science (using Python), Daniel Lim presents in this book key philosophical issues, ranging from external world skepticism to the existence of God to the problem of induction. These issues, and others, are introduced through the use of critical computational concepts, rangi…
Simply stated, this book bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy. It does this by delineating the conceptual cores of various statistical methodologies (Bayesian/frequentist statistics, model selection, machine learning, causal inference, etc.) and drawing out their philosophical implications. Portraying statistical inference as an epistemic endeavor to justify hypotheses about a prob…
This groundbreaking new book considers how privacy issues can arise in a library context and what library and information professionals can do to protect the privacy of their users. A Practical Guide to Privacy in Libraries features a wide range of practical examples of such issues, providing insights and practical steps which readers can follow. In-depth case studies and scenarios support the …
Theories of Early Childhood Education continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives in early childhood education from developmental psychology to critical studies, Piaget to Freire. This revised and updated edition includes additional chapters on Michael Alexander Halliday’s view of language learning and the attachment theory work of John Bowlby and Mar…