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From: Stephen Campbell <sencael@uci.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <kant-l@bucknell.edu>
Subject: Re: Opinion poll B XVI: Results after 1 day
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:25:07 -0500 (EST)

I think Marco's observation regarding Piaget's naturalistic orientation
to Kant is quite astute. There is a definite tension between options
"A" and "B" in Piaget's (Darwinized) Kantianism.

=46or the sake of brevity in my response I did not mention, and should
have, that it is Ernst von Glasersfeld's "radical constructivist"
interpretation of Piaget that has, perhaps more than any other single
factor, led to a less ambiguous, and more idealist, orientation towards
option "B" in mathematics and science education research. Even so,
ambiguities within the field regarding these orientations remain. Not
all constructivist research in mathematics education is of the
"Radical," option "B," variety. "Weak" constructivism is often used to
refer to variously articulated orientations towards option "A."

I think a lot of the ambiguity regarding these two options can be seen
to turn upon one's leanings regarding the relationship (or lack
thereof) between Kant's "empirical realism" and "transcendental
idealism."=20

cf. von Glasersfeld, E. (1982). An Interpretation of Piaget's
Constructivism. <italic>Review Internationale de Philosophy</italic>.
Vols. 142-3 (pp. 612-635).=20

Regards,

Sen

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>* Another counterexample is Piaget himself, who - according to Stephen
-

>considers himself to be "profoundly Kantian". I like very much most
of

>Piaget's work but his foundations concerning the choice "A or B" are
not

>enough explicit to me.

>In "Biologie et Connaissance" [=DF 8.V] he considers, together with
Konrad

>Lorenz, that Kant's "a priori categories" (Piaget: cat=C8gories a priori
=2E..

>dans la pens=C8e humaine) are innate, which amounts at reintroducing the
A

>paradigm.

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