Ernst von Glasersfeld und der Radikale Konstruktivismus
Vita	Konzepte	Forschung	Didaktik	Information

Radical Constructivism 'What is radical constructivism? It is an unconventional approach to the problem of knowledge and knowing. It starts from the assumption that 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. What we make of experience constitutes the only world we consciously live in. It can be sorted into many kinds, such as things, self, others, and so on. But all kinds of experience are essentially subjective, and though I may find reasons to believe that myexperience may not be unlike yours, I have no way of knowing that it is the same. The experience and interpretation of language are no exception.' ( p.1 - 'Growing Up Constructivist', in, 'Radical Constructivism - A Way of Knowing and Learning').

Vita

Ernst von Glasersfeld is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Dept. Of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Philosopher & Cybernetician he spent large parts of his life in Ireland [1940s], in Italy [1950s] and the USA [current]. Elaborating upon Vico, Piaget's genetic epistemology, Bishop Berkeley's theory of perception, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and other important texts, Ernst developed his model of Radical Constructivism - which is an ethos shared by all of these writers to one degree or another, sometimes it is difficult to see where their epistemological agreements begin and end - but that is part of the fun.

Konzepte

Ecology of Mind page (Vincent Kenny) This page makes the bridging connections from Ecology [as having to do with nature, the environment etc.] to Psychology [as the attempts to understand our human experiencing].

Forschung

New Trends in Cognitive Sciences The goal of this single-track conference is to investigate and discuss new approaches and movements in cognitive science in a workshop-like atmosphere. Among the topics which seem to have emerged in the last years are: embodiment of knowledge, system theoretic and computational neuroscience approaches to cognition, dynamics in recurrent neural architectures, evolutionary and artificial life approaches to cognition, and (epistemological) implications for perception and representation, constructivist concepts and the problem of knowledge representation, autopoiesis, implications forepistemology and philosophy (of science)

CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES (Links, Gehirnforschung)

Didaktik

Der radikale Konstruktivismus als philosophische Erkenntnistheorie (Josef Größchen, Koblenz) Der Radikale Konstruktivismus, wie er hier vorgestellt wird, geht zurück auf Heinz v. Foerster, Ernst v. Glasersfeld, Paul Watzlawick u.a.

Philosophie in der Schule (Josef Größchen, Koblenz) Stellen wir uns vor, wir sehen einem Zaubertrick zu: Wir begreifen nicht, wie das, was wir sehen, möglich ist.