Constructivism in epistemology and in the human sciences

Project organizer and moderator — Yu. V. Sineokaya

Authors

  • Vladislav Α. Lektorskiy RAS Institute of Philosophy
  • Elena O. Trufanova RAS Institute of Philosophy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31857/S023620070003025-4

Keywords:

constructivism, realism, constructive realism, social constructionism, virtual reality, post-human being, epistemology, philosophy of science

Abstract

The projective constructivism as a cultural attitude and the constructivism in epistemology are discussed. The radical constructivism as a project of substituting natural processes with artificial ones is analyzed. The authors study the constructivist conception of knowledge in general, the constructivist philosophy of scientific knowledge in particular. The following thesis is substantiated: a complete control of the human being over the world is impossible, and realizing of the radical constructivism as life and cultural attitude is not a triumph of human freedom, but rather its loss. Epistemological constructivism is not a true interpretation of cognition and cannot be a fruitful strategy in science. The authors defend the position of constructive realism as a life, cultural and cognitive attitude.

Author Biographies

  • Vladislav Α. Lektorskiy, RAS Institute of Philosophy

    DSc in Philosophy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Research Fellow

  • Elena O. Trufanova, RAS Institute of Philosophy

    in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow

Published

2019-03-07

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Общее

How to Cite

[1]
2019. Constructivism in epistemology and in the human sciences: Project organizer and moderator — Yu. V. Sineokaya. Chelovek. 30, 1 (Mar. 2019), 102–124. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31857/S023620070003025-4.