Justice, Incentive and Constructivism

Embracing Nativism and Constructivism

Neural constructivists have proclaimed, on the basis of arguments which it is suggested in the following are unconvincing, a view of the nervous system which has little place for innate knowledge relating to speciic domains. In this paper an alternative position is developed, which by instantiating innate knowledge in a exible manner provides a more credible alternative. It invokes dynamical sy...

Cybersemiotic Pragmaticism and Constructivism

> Context • Radical constructivism claims that we have no final truth criteria for establishing one ontology over another. This leaves us with the question of how we can come to know anything in a viable manner. According to von Glasersfeld, radical constructivism is a theory of knowledge rather than a philosophy of the world in itself because we do not have access to a human-independent world....

Rawls and Kantian Constructivism

Constructivism and the error theory

According to the error theory, morality presents itself to us as though it were something to be discovered, but in fact it is not. Morality is something invented, constructed or made. According to constructivism, morality is something invented, constructed or made. Thus understood, constructivism and the error theory are close philosophical relatives. Both views assert that morality is a constr...

Modularity, Relativism, and Neural Constructivism

Fodor (1983) claims that the modularity of mind (the relatively encapsulated, insulated, special-purpose nature of the psychological mechanisms of perception) helps undermine relativism in various forms. I shall show first, that the modular vision of mind provides insufficient support for the rejection of (most forms of) relativism, and second, that an alternative (‘neural constructivist’) mode...