On Constructivist Epistemology: : Tom Rockmore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

On Constructivist Epistemology

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In his book On Foundationalism, Tom Rockmore reviewed the efforts to develop a cogent form of foundational realism and concluded that the doctrine is no longer viable and should be abandoned. In On Constructivist Epistemology, Rockmore expounds upon the idea of "constructivism" as introduced at the end of On Foundationalism.

On Constructivist Epistemology belongs to an ongoing effort to call attention to the resources of a modern epistemological approach, which is focused in Kant and which is followed up virtually throughout the later debate. Rockmore traces the idea of constructivism and then proposes the outlines of an original constructivist approach to knowledge, building on the work of such thinkers as Hobbes, Vico, and Kant

Part 1 On Realism and Constructivism
Chapter 2 Realism, Anti-Realism, and Knowledge
Chapter 3 Realism and Other Approaches to Knowledge
Chapter 4 On Direct Realism and Justifying Claims to Know
Chapter 5 On Indirect, or Representational, Realism and Knowledge
Chapter 6 Kant, Representationalism, and Constructivism
Part 7 On Forms of Constructivism
Chapter 8 What is Constructivism?
Chapter 9 On Hobbes, Vico, and Classical Modern Constructivism
Chapter 10 Kantian Constructivism
Chapter 11 German Idealism and Historical Constructivism
Chapter 12 Recent Forms of Constructivism
Part 13 Thick Subjectivity
Chapter 14 Toward a New Beginning
Chapter 15 Cognitive Subjectivity: "Thick," "Thin," or "Null"?
Chapter 16 The "Null" Subject: Heidegger, Foucault, and Postmodernism
Chapter 17 Foundationalism and Thin Subjectivity
Chapter 18 An Epistemological Subject?
Chapter 19 Idealized Subjectivity
Chapter 20 Thin Subjectivity?
Chapter 21 Is There a Unified Subject?
Chapter 22 Thin Subjectivity All Alone?
Chapter 23 Subjectivity and Knowledge: A Proteron Histeron?
Chapter 24 Thick Subjectivity?
Chapter 25 Thick Subjectivity Again: Descartes and Vico
Chapter 26 Thick Subjectivity and the "Existential" Turn
Chapter 27 Thick Subjectivity, the French Revolution, and German Idealism
Chapter 28 Cartesian Theory of Knowledge?
Part 29 Thick Subjectivity and Knowledge as Contextual
Chapter 30 The Subject-Object Dichotomy
Chapter 31 Psychologism vs. Anti-Psychologism
Chapter 32 Social Justification, Truth, and Knowledge
Chapter 33 Realism and Knowledge as Appearance
Chapter 34 Protagorean Relativism Again
Chapter 35 Objective Cognition?
Chapter 36 Realism vs. a Social Approach to Theories and Facts
Chapter 37 Constraints on Social Justification
Chapter 38 The Social Subject: Singular or Plural?
Part 39 Knowledge as Historical
Chapter 40 Science: Interpretation, Certainty, and History
Chapter 41 Knowledge as Historical
Chapter 42 Is Science Historical?
Chapter 43 Science as Historical and Objective Cognition
Chapter 44 Is Mathematics Historical?
Chapter 45 Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
Chapter 46 Philosophy as Historical?
Part 47 Social Platonism? Social Reason, Social Relevance, and Social Responsibility
Chapter 48 Socrates, Plato and Social Platonism
Chapter 49 Philosophical Doubts about Social Platonism
Chapter 50 Kant as a Modern Platonist
Chapter 51 Renewed Doubts about Social Platonism: Hegel, Marx, and Postmodernism
Chapter 52 Neo-Kantianism and Social Relevance
Chapter 53 Philosophy as Relevant, Intellectuals as Responsible

Product details

Published	Feb 01 2005
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	164
ISBN	9780742543201
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	241 x 162 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing