- Dear Professor von
Glasersfeld,
-
- in the book "Radical Constructivism - A Way of
Knowing and Learning" you
- start the definition of radical constructivism with
this assumption: "...
- knowledge, no matter how it is defined, is in the
heads of persons, and
- that the thinking subject has no alternative but to
construct what he or
- she knows on the basis of his or her own
experience".
-
- I take this assumption as a metaphor. I belive that
a consequent
- constructivist must consider that also concepts like
"head",
- "person", "assumption" and "knowledge" are just
constructions. I
- think that even notions as "subject" (or "self") and
"construction" are
- constructions. This results in an epistemological
approach which
- considers only constructions of constructions (or
perhaps cognition of
- cognition). In such an approach (which considers
itself also as an
- construction) there is no need of any ontological
assumptions including
- assumption of an ontological or substantial subject
manifesting itself
- through constructions. As I understand it, the
assumption of such kind of
- substantial subject will lead to solipsism.
-
- Do you agree? Or do you assume some kind of
ontological subject?
-
- Thank you very much for any help.
- Best wishes,
- Jan Burian
- University of economics, Prague
- Czech Republic
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