Radical Constructivism
- Ernst von Glasersfeld (SRRI, Univ. of Amherst, USA)
- cognitive science pioneer (linguistics, philosophy, cybernetics, AI)
- cooperation with Silvio Ceccato in Milano (1949-1965)
- computer-assisted communication with a schimpanzee
- new interpretation of Piaget's constructivism (since 1974)
- Radical-Constructivist Theory of Knowledge (1995, 1998):
* ontological reality cannot be grasped by rational means
* experiential reality - the world as we experience it - as the source of our explanations and predictions
* viability instead of ontological truth (validation of knowledge)
* concepts explained by generative mechanisms
* radical-constructivism is not a description of reality
©1998,M.Bettoni,CZM,Fachhochschule beider Basel
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