Steps In The Construction Of “Others” And “Reality”: A Study In Self-Regulation

Ernst von Glasersfeld

A chapter in Power, Autonomy, Utopia, 1986, pp 107-116 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The author advocates a change of perspective concerning the concept of knowledge. He suggests that the experiential reality in which we live and in which our sciences operate is the result of a self-regulating organism’s construction and should not be confounded with the ontological reality that philosophers have vainly searched for throughout the history of Western epistemology. The notion of viability gives a new slant to an instrumentalist theory of knowledge that serves as a basis for the cognitive construction of Others and may ultimately provide a starting-point for the development of a constructivist ethics.

Keywords: Experiential Reality; Constructivist Theory; Categorical Imperative; Experiential World; Semiotic System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-2225-2_7

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