Certainty of Uncertainty : Dialogues Introducing Constructivism
by Poerksen, BernhardFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary
This book presents the views of the founders of constructivism and modern systems theory, who are still providing stimulating cues for international scientific debate. The conversations turn on the results of brain research, the breaks through of cybernetics, the linguistic determination of thought, and the intrinsic connection between epistemology and ethical practice.
Author Biography
Bernhard Poerksen is junior professor of journalism and communication science at the University of Hamburg.
Table of Contents
| At each and every moment I can decide who I am : Heinz von Foerster on the observer, on dialogical living, and on a constructivist philosophy of distinctions | p. 1 |
| We can never know what goes on in somebody else's head : Ernst von Glasersfeld on truth and viability, language and knowledge, and the premises of constructivist education | p. 25 |
| The knowledge of knowledge entails responsibility : Humberto R. Maturana on truth and oppression, structure determinism and dictatorship, and the autopoiesis of living | p. 47 |
| Truth is what works : Francisco J. Varela on cognitive science, Buddhism, the inseparability of subject and object, and the exaggerations of constructivism | p. 85 |
| We are constructs of ourselves : Gerhard Roth on the creation of reality in the brain, on a reality independent from human consciousness, and on the relationship between neurobiology and philosophy | p. 109 |
| We can never start from scratch : Siegfried J. Schmidt on individuals and society, on the reality of the media, and on the constructivist conception of empirical knowledge | p. 133 |
| The freedom to venture into the unknown : Helm Stierlin on guilt and responsibility in systemic and constructivist thought, on the dialectical nature of human relations, and on the ethos of the therapist | p. 153 |
| Reality : we can only know what it is not : Paul Watzlawick on the axioms of communication, on the hidden realism of psychiatric diagnoses, and on the constructivist vision of human existence | p. 192 |
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