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  • 17 Dec 2018
    William H. Schmidt

    Schooling Across the Globe: What We Have Learned from 60 Years of Mathematics and Science International Assessments

    Schooling Across the Globe: What We Have Learned from 60 Years of Mathematics and Science International Assessments is available now. This episode is also available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.

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  • 11 Dec 2018
    Stephen Hetherington

    Knowing What Knowing Is

    Do you know what knowledge is? Before you reply, ponder for a moment the Gettier problem. It’s a puzzle. It’s a challenge. It was a moment; now it’s a tradition. It’s a centrepiece of contemporary philosophy – a conundrum about knowledge. It makes potent the possibility that we will never fully understand knowledge’s nature. The […]

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  • 6 Dec 2018
    Lukas Engelmann

    Looking at AIDS History

    In the ‘International Atlas of AIDS’, the last AIDS atlas to be written and published in 2008, the editors decided to include a chapter on the ‘social repercussions’ of AIDS. Photographs of ACT UP, educational posters, visual art and poems concluded this compendium written for doctors and biomedical researchers. It’s a chapter that has always […]

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  • 6 Dec 2018
    Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield

    The Violence of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Violence

    The authors of Texts and Violence in the Roman World explain why ancient history is still quite relevant in today's current climate.

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  • 5 Dec 2018
    Dr Neil Sinclair

    The Naturalistic Fallacy

    In October 2018 ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ ran a debate entitled ‘Do People Hate Vegans?’. In November the vegan activist group Direct Action Everywhere staged a protest at a Brighton steakhouse, playing recordings of cows being killed. Passions were raised, with some diners booing and shouting in return. A spokesman from the group said: ‘Legality […]

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  • 5 Dec 2018
    Principles of Thermodynamics
    Sylvain D. Brechet, Jean-Philippe Ansermet

    Principles of Thermodynamics

    Thermodynamics is a theory which establishes the relationship between the physical quantities that characterise the macroscopic properties of a system. In our book, Principles of Thermodynamics, thermodynamics is presented as a physical theory which is based upon two fundamental laws pertaining to energy and entropy, which can be applied to many different systems in chemistry […]

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  • 4 Dec 2018
    Kareem Khalifa

    What do you understand?

    Einstein once remarked, “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Expressions like these are increasingly common. Saturated with social media and soundbites, many lament modern life’s flood of information and its dearth of understanding. But what exactly is understanding? In my book, Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge, I answer this question by riffing […]

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  • 4 Dec 2018
    Peter Adamson

    More than a Commentator

    Can you really be famous for explaining someone else’s ideas? Speaking as a historian of philosophy I can tell you the answer is: not really. But one man who just about managed it was Ibn Rushd, often known by the Latinized version of his name, Averroes. He lived in twelfth century Spain, at a time […]

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