Methodical constructivism

Peter Janich

pp. 173-190

in: Dimitri Ginev, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Issues and images in the philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 1997

Abstract

In recent years, an inflation of "constructivisms' has been restricting the information value of the label "constructivist" — the more so since (the younger) "Radical Constructivism" developed by biologists or from biological approaches to the role of the brain is a naturalistic position. The claims advanced as well as the means used by this type of constructivism are totally different from the methodical approach.