Jewish Constructivism

Info-computational Constructivism

Context: At present we lack both a common understanding of the process of cognition in living organisms (with or without a nervous system and brain) and the details of the construction of knowledge in embodied, embedded cognizing agents in general, including future artifactual intelligent agents under development, such as cognitive robots and softbots. The info-computational approach is focused...

Interpreting Legal Constructivism

The Logic of Constructivism

In this paper I dispute the current view that intuitionistic logic is the common basis for the three main trends of constructivism in the philosophy of mathematics: intuitionism, Russian constructivism and Bishop’s constructivism. The point is that the so-called ‘Markov’s principle’, which is accepted by Russian constructivists and rejected by the other two, is expressible in intuitionistic fir...

Constructivism Is Difficult

In a recent issue of this MONTHLY, Fred Richman [8] discussed existence proofs. Richman’s conclusion, as I understood it, was that once a mathematician sees the distinction between constructive and nonconstructive mathematics, he or she will choose the former. That conclusion, if extrapolated further than Professor Richman intended, suggests that any mathematician can learn constructivism easil...

Constructivism: a Suitable Pedagogy

Constructivism is a major intellectual influence on the development of modern learning technology. This paper first reviews the main tenets of the constructivist approach. The application of constructivism to the Information and Computing Sciences (ICS) is then critically discussed. It is argued that constructivism provides a set of ideas that should have a deeper and more widespread impact on ...