The many public debates launched by governments on education, such
as Tony Blair's emphasis on "education, education, education" have
nonetheless failed to consider the place of the good society in educational endeavor. The traditional account of education is that it not only
teaches pupils the skills to earn a living, but also teaches a concern
for the welfare of others, a love of the many cultures of learning and
a commitment to the best values of society. Education and the Good
Society seeks to examine these considerations and to restore them to
the center of the educational debate.
Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to
support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to
go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and
deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new,
radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting
workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools
that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.
David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the
definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English
language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and
against the "sophistry and illusion"of religiously inspired
philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash.
The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought,
reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate
understanding of the physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either
sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience,
recognizing our animal nature and the limits of reason. Hume's calm
and open-minded skepticism thus aims to provide a new basis for
science, liberating us from the "superstition" of false metaphysics and relegion. His Enquiry remains one of the best introductions to the study of philosophy, and his edition places it in its historical
and philosophical context.
John McDowell's "minimal empiricism" is one of the most influential and widely discussed doctrines in contemporary philosophy. Richard Gaskin subjects it to careful examination and criticism, arguing that it has unacceptable consequences, and in particular that it mistakenly rules out
something we all know to be the case: that infants and non-human animals experience a world. Gaskin traces the errors in McDowell's empiricism to their source, and presents his own, still more minimal, version of empiricism, suggesting that a correct philosophy of language requires us to recognize a sense in which the world we experience speaks its own language.
Marketing's undisputed doyen offers an unbeatable guide on what not to do. As the cost of marketing rises, its effectiveness is in decline. CEOs want a return on their marketing investment, but can't be sure their marketing efforts are even working. Truly, marketers have to shape up or watch their business go south. In this clear and comprehensive guide, renowned marketing expert Philip Kotler identifies the ten most common-and most damaging-mistakes marketers make, and how to avoid them. But these ten mistakes are much more than simple mess-ups; they're glaring deficiencies that prevent companies from succeeding in the marketplace.