Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.

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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning; Copyright; Contents; Preface by Series Editor; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Growing up Constructivist: Languages and Thoughtful People; Which Language Tells It 'as It Is'?; The Wrong Time in Vienna; Growing Roots in Dublin; Interdisciplinary Education; A Close Look at Meanings; The American Connection; Introduction to Psychology; Collaboration with a Chimpanzee; Discovering Piaget; From Mental Operations to the Construction of Reality; A Decisive Friendship; Teaching Experiments. - Analysis of Empirical ConstructionThe Question of Objectivity; Corroboration by Others; The Elusive Self; The Notion of Environment; The Perceived Self; Sensory Clues; Reflected Images; The Social Self; Conclusion; Chapter 7 On Language, Meaning, and Communication; The Semantic Basis; Language Games; The Construction of Meaning; Language and Reality; Theory of Communication; How We May Come to Use Language; To Understand Understanding; Why Communication? Why Language?; Chapter 8 The Cybernetic Connection; Declaration of the American Society for Cybernetics. - Feedback, Induction, and Epistemology. - New Fuel for InstrumentalismHypotheses and Fictions; The Foundation of Language Analysis; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Piaget's Constructivist Theory of Knowing; The Biological Premise; Active Construction; Beginnings; The Construction of Experiential Reality; Individual Identity; Assimilation; From Reflexes to Scheme Theory; Accommodation; The Concept of Equilibration; Learning; Different Types of Abstraction; Stages of Development; The Observer and the Observed; Experience and Reality; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The Construction of Concepts; Analysis of Operations; The Concept of Change. - The Concept of MotionGenerating Individual Identity; Space and Time; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Reflection and Abstraction; Reflection; Abstraction; Generalization; The Notion of Re-presentation; Re-presenting Past Experiences; Recognition; The Need of an Agent; Meaning as Re-presentation; The Power of Symbols; Piaget's Theory of Abstraction; Form and Content; Four Kinds of Abstraction; The Question of Awareness; Operational Awareness; Conclusion; Philosophical Postscript; Chapter 6 Constructing Agents: The Self and Others; The Illusion of Encoded Information; The Reality of Experience. - The Spreading of Constructivist IdeasRetirement and a New Beginning; Support from Physics and Philosophy of Science; Chapter 2 Unpopular Philosophical Ideas: A History in Quotations; Objectivity Put in Question; The Pre-Socratics; Theological Insights; Modern Science Widens The Rift; A Failure and an Achievement of Descartes; Locke's Forgotten Reflection; The Exaggeration of the 'Blank Slate'; A Reinterpretation of Berkeley; Hume's Deconstruction of Conceptual Relations; Bentham and Vico - Pioneers of Conceptual Analysis; Kant's 'Transcendental Enterprise'; A Re-assessment of Causality. - First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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