Constructivism as a distinct metaethical position has garnered significant interest in recent years due part to Sharon Street’s theory, Humean constructivism. According account, practical reasons are constructed by individual valuing entities. On this view, then, whether particular reason applies an is completely contingent upon what that actually values. In article I argue for the recognition ...

Instructionism refers to educational practices that are teacher-focused, skill-based, productoriented, non-interactive, and highly prescribed. Constructivism refers to educational practices that are student-focused, meaning-based, process-oriented, interactive, and responsive to student interest. There is disagreement regarding which curricular orientation best serves the educational needs of c...

From the mechanical teaching machines of the early twentieth century to intelligent tutoring systems and the wave of massive open online courses in recent years, many have been motivated by the dream of personalized, adaptive instruction for all students. To achieve this goal, learning scientists and educational technology researchers have largely focused on rule-based systems that rely on exte...

This brief paper responds to a featured article By Ernst von Glasersfeld, titled “Who conceives of society,” Constructivist Foundations 3,2: 59-64, 2008, in which he elaborates his radical constructivist conception of human cognition about social phenomena. The response agrees that individuals construct their own meanings but questions whether discrepancies in understanding are recognizable and...

Method: The info-computational constructive framework is presented for the modeling of cognitive processes in cognizing agents. Parallels are drawn with other constructivist approaches to cognition and knowledge generation. We describe how cognition as a process of life itself functions based on info-computation and how the process of knowledge generation proceeds through interactions with the ...

Prologue. The philosophy of mathematics and logic has been an object of my reeections ever since I rst undertook serious study of these subjects. Over many years I have slowly developed a global way of thinking about the foundations, not only of mathematics, but of abstract concepts in general (see 7], 8], 9] and the introduction of 12]). Recently, the fertility of such a global approach, at wh...

In contrast to other constructivist schools, for Brouwer, the notion of “constructive object” is not restricted to be presented as ‘words’ in some finite alphabet of symbols, and choice sequences which are non-predetermined and unfinished objects are legitimate constructive objects. In this way, Brouwer’s constructivism goes beyond Turing computability. Further, in 1999, the term hypercomputati...

My eld is mathematical logic, with a special interest in constructivism, and I would not dare to call myself a computer scientist. But some computer scientists regard my work as a contribution to their eld; and in this text I shall try to explain how this is possible, by taking a look at the history of ideas. I want to describe how two interrelated ideas, connected with the con-structivistic tr...

This paper attempts to provide a critical approach to the issue of regional integration, one of the most important subjects over the last two decades and currently one of the leading debates that are taking place in the South. Although the importance of regional integration –given its correlation to the process of pacific change in international relations–, it seems that there is no satisfactor...

The gods have certainty, whereas to us as men conjecture [only is possible] – Alcmaeon 1 PRELIMINARY REMARKS Within the limits of one chapter, an unconventional way of thinking can certainly not be thoroughly justified, but it can, perhaps, be presented in its most characteristic features anchored here and there in single points. There is, of course, the danger of being misunderstood. In the ca...