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Towards a technology- and action-oriented methodology of constructive realism

Hans Lenk

pp. 3-22

Abstrakt

My main thesis is that not only philosophy of science but also general epistemology might profit from interfacing better with technology-oriented methodologies and an action-oriented social "environment" of the concept of "knowledge" particularly regarding what can, in a wider sense, be called "grasping" (cf. my 2003). The concept of "grasping" implies that the active dimension of acquiring knowledge is a genuinely constructive activity and not primarily a representational task of trying to represent external structures. "Grasping" should not only be interpreted in the literal sense of "gripping something"; it should also be understood in the figurative senses of "understanding," "knowing," and "getting inside." Knowledge in this sense is understood to be a kind of activity or even interactivity between partial systems, i.e., it relies upon mutually or strategically acting agents, be they even, amongst others, 'software agents."

Publication details

Published in:

Leidlmair Karl (2009) After cognitivism: a reassessment of cognitive science and philosophy. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 3-22

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_1

Referenz:

Lenk Hans (2009) Towards a technology- and action-oriented methodology of constructive realism, In: After cognitivism, Dordrecht, Springer, 3–22.