Realism - Relativism - Constructivism

Realism - Relativism - Constructivism
Author: Christian Kanzian
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110524058

The book presents papers from leading proponents of realist, relativist, and constructivist positions in epistemology and the philosophy of language and ethics.

Realism - Relativism - Constructivism

Realism - Relativism - Constructivism
Author: Christian Kanzian
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110523426

The book presents papers from leading proponents of realist, relativist, and constructivist positions in epistemology and the philosophy of language and ethics.

Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism

Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism
Author: Eric Thomas Weber
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441161147

Examines problems in Rawls' epistemology, approached from a Deweyan perspective, to argue for a thoroughly constructivist idea of justice and its practical implications for education. >

Radical Constructivism

Radical Constructivism
Author: Andreas Quale
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087906129

This book addresses the topic of science education, from the viewpoint of the theory of radical constructivism. It takes a closer look at the "image of science" that is projected, in the presentation of it to students and to the general public.

Realism Versus Realism

Realism Versus Realism
Author: Chhanda Gupta
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780742513877

Realism versus Realism defends the metaphysics of 'Internal Realism, ' a view authored by Hilary Putnam, and seeks to build on its basis an immanent realistic position to resolve two conflicts: the conflict between realism and some forms of anti-realism, especially relativism which involves constructivism and subjectivism; and also between two forms of realism itself, namely transcendent and immanent. Contra transcendent realism, author Chhanda Gupta rejects the absolute view of realities that (a) transcend our concept forming powers, (b) transcend our cognitive abilities, and (c) are said to have features by themselves, not as things appear to us. Contra relativism of the anti-realist stripe, Gupta defends conceptual relativity without letting it drift towards constructivism and subjectivism. This general theory of realism minus absolutism, and relativism minus subjectivism and constructivism, may be seen to have a relevance for our moral and social image of the world by showing how pluralism can avoid the ills of absolutism without ushering in intellectual and moral anarchy.

Realist Constructivism

Realist Constructivism
Author: J. Samuel Barkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139484400

Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in a realist constructivism. But at the same time, there are important distinctions between them, and there remains a need for a constructivism that is not realist, and a realism that is not constructivist. Samuel Barkin argues more broadly for a different way of thinking about theories of international relations, that focuses on the corresponding elements within various approaches rather than on a small set of mutually exclusive paradigms. Realist Constructivism provides an interesting new way for scholars and students to think about international relations theory.

Hermeneutic Realism

Hermeneutic Realism
Author: Dimitri Ginev
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319392891

This study recapitulates basic developments in the tradition of hermeneutic and phenomenological studies of science. It focuses on the ways in which scientific research is committed to the universe of interpretative phenomena. It treats scientific research by addressing its characteristic hermeneutic situations, and uses the following basic argument in this treatment: By demonstrating that science’s epistemological identity is not to be spelled out in terms of objectivism, mathematical essentialism, representationalism, and foundationalism, one undermines scientism without succumbing scientific research to “procedures of normative-democratic control” that threaten science’s cognitive autonomy. The study shows that in contrast to social constructivism, hermeneutic phenomenology of scientific research makes the case that overcoming scientism does not imply restrictive policies regarding the constitution of scientific objects.