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The Creation of Reality
Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes". In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the imaginative examination of personal certainties and the certainties of others, of ideologies great and small. The focus of the debate is on the author's thesis that our understanding of journalism and, in particular, the education and training of journalists, would profit substantially from constructivist insights. These insights instigate, the claim is, an original kind of scepticism; they provide the underpinnings of a modern type of didactics oriented by the autonomy of learners; and they supply the sustaining arguments for a radical ethic of responsibility in journalism.
Signs, Minds and Actions
This second of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The collection not only contains articles related to some of Wittgenstein’s central arguments but also holds contributions that deal with the role and function of signs, as well as with the relations between language and action, consciousness and metaphysics. An interdisciplinary workshop was dedicated to “Wittgenstein and Literature”, an area of study which has been prominent in the philosophical discourse of the last decade. Contributors to this volume are Anat Biletzki, Michael Dummett, Laurence Goldstein, Peter Janich, Brian McGuinness, Marjorie Perloff, David Schalkwyk, Joachim Schulte, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, David Stern, Eike von Savigny among others.
Philosophy of the Information Society
This is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, on Ethics and the political economy of information society. Also included are papers presented in a workshop on electronic philosophy resources and open source/open access.
Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue
What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg. Worldwide leading philosophers accepted the invitation to come to the conference, whose results are published in this volume, edited by Christian Kanzian Edmund Runggaldier. The sections are dedicated to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, Logics and Philosophy of Language, Decision- and Action Theory, Ethical Aspects of the Intercultural Dialogue, Intercultural Dialogue, and last not least to Social Ontology. Our edition include (among others) contributions authored by Peter Hacker, Jennifer Hornsby, John Hyman, Michael Kober, Richard Rorty, Hans Rott, Gerhard Schurz, Barry Smith, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Franz Wimmer, and Kwasi Wiredu.
Nieznośna płynność rzeczy. Dyskurs, retoryka, interpretacja w nie-dualizującym sposobie mówienia
Książka Nieznośna płynność rzeczy. Dyskurs, retoryka, interpretacja jest monografią oryginalnego i inspirującego projektu austriackiego filozofa Josefa Mitterera. W jego koncepcji, zwanej nie-dualizującym sposobem mówienia, nie zakłada się dystynkcji między przedmiotem a jego opisem. Książka stanowi ambitny interdyscyplinarny projekt, w którym wskazuje się złożoność tej propozycji i jej wartość dla badań humanistycznych. Nie-dualizująca filozofia jest ujęta nie tylko w kontekście radykalnego konstruktywizmu, z którym Mitterer jest najczęściej kojarzony, ale również w kontekście neopragmatyzmu Richarda Rorty’ego i Stanleya Fisha, stylów myślowych Ludwika F...
The Happy Afterlife of Ludwig W.
This book tells a great philosophical tale. The backstory of this tale is simple: the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein published only one philosophical book during his lifetime: the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He left the lion’s share of his philosophical writings to posterity in the form of unpublished manuscripts and typescripts amounting to more than 18,000 pages. In his will, Wittgenstein entrusted three of his former students – Elizabeth Anscombe, Rush Rhees and Georg Henrik von Wright – with the task of publishing from his writings what they thought fit. During the subsequent decades, these literary heirs edited the volumes that the learned world has come to know as the...
Schlüsselwerke des Konstruktivismus
Es ist die zentrale Annahme aller konstruktivistischen Ansätze, dass wir im Erkennen Befangene sind, dass der Zugriff auf eine absolute Wahrheit unmöglich ist, unmöglich sein muss. In diesem Buch werden – ausgehend von Vorläufern und zentralen Bezugstheorien der Philosophiegeschichte – die unterschiedlichen Theoriestränge des Konstruktivismus beschrieben, die aus den Naturwissenschaften, den Geistes- und den Sozialwissenschaften stammen. Das Spektrum reicht von den Klassikern der Philosophiegeschichte über die Sprachphilosophie und Wissenssoziologie bis hin zur Theorie der Autopoiesis und der modernen Hirnforschung. In kompakten, gut lesbaren Artikeln, verfasst von führenden Fachleuten aus dem In- und Ausland, werden die Schlüsselwerke des Konstruktivismus und die Möglichkeiten der forschungs- und praxisbezogenen Anwendung in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Arbeitsfeldern (u.a. Medien- und Literaturwissenschaft, Pädagogik, Psychologie, Organisationsberatung, Soziale Arbeit) präsentiert. Für die 2. Auflage wurde der Band aktualisiert und um ein Nachwort von Siegfried J. Schmidt ergänzt.
The Future of Value Inquiry
This book explores the nature of values, and the status of value studies, at the turn of the millennium. The contributors, nineteen philosophers from fourteen countries, introduce and defend an enriching variety of views regarding the present state and future prospects of value inquiry.
Conceptual Modeling
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2017, held in Valencia, Spain, in November 2017. The 28 full and 10 short papers presented together with 1 full 6 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions. This events covers a wide range of following topics: Conceptual Modeling Methodology, Conceptual Modeling and Requirements, Foundations, Conceptual Modeling in Specifi c Context, Conceptual Modeling and Business Processes, Model Efficiency, and Ontologies.
The Certainty of Uncertainty
Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased. This book presents the views of the founders of constructivism and modern systems theory, who are still providing stimulating cues for international scientific debate. The conversations of Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela, Gerhard Roth, Siegfried J. Schmidt, Helm Stierlin, and Paul Watzlawick with Bernhard Poerksen, display a kind of thinking that steers cl...
