KONŠTRUKTIVIZMUS AKO FILOZOFIA A SOCIOLÓGIA VEDY: PROBLÉMY, MOŽNOSTI A LIMITY

• Authors: Sedová Tatiana

Title variants

EN

Constructivism as a philosophy and a sociology of science: Problems, possibilities and limits

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper gives an analysis of the role of constructivism in post-positivist epistemology and in the philosophy of science. The role of constructivism is thus analyzed in the sphere of the sociology of cognition. The authoress gives a detailed interpretation of Berger's and Luckman's social constructivism. The attention is paid also to the relationship between constructivism and co called 'standpoint epistemology' and reflexivity. The authoress sheds light especially on the various characteristics of social determinacy of scientific knowledge.

Keywords

EN

'STANDTPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY'; CONSTRUCTIVISM; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM; SOCIOLOGY OF COGNITION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 750-764
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sedová Tatiana

• T. Sedova, Filozoficky ustav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA03467082