Constructivism and Practice Toward a Historical Epistemology

by Gould, Carol C.; Margolis, Joseph; Rockmore, Tom; Dolling, Lisa M.; Hintikka, Jaakko; Alterman, Anton; Toulmin, Stephen; Paty, Michel; Stachel, John; Horowitz, Gregg; Kelly, Michael; Huhn, Tom; Savedoff, Barbara; Fisher, Saul; Schwarzenbach, Sybil; Pittma

• ISBN13: 9780742512641
• ISBN10: 0742512649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Constructivism and Practice advances the understanding of the role of construction and model creation and reflects on the relationship of these models to social practices.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Carol C. Gould
Part I: Knowledge and Social Practice
The Construction of Knowledge	3	(14)
Joseph Margolis
Different Worlds, History, and Progress	17	(16)
Tom Rockmore
Part II: Language, Truth, and Modes of Representation
Dialogue as Praxis: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Historical Epistemology, and Truth	33	(14)
Lisa M. Dolling
A Distinction Too Few or Too Many? A Vindication of the Analytic vs. Synthetic Distinction	47	(28)
Jaakko Hintikka
Aspects, Objects, and Representations	75	(16)
Anton Alterman
Representation in Art and Science	91	(18)
Stephen Toulmin
Part III: Science and the Construction of Knowledge
The Idea of Quantity at the Origin of the Legitimacy of Mathematization in Physics	109	(28)
Michel Paty
``Critical Realism'': Wartofsky and Bhaskar	137	(16)
John Stachel
Part IV: Art in Social Context
Art as Reflective Praxis: On Marx Wartofsky's Historical Materialist Aesthetics	153	(14)
Gregg Horowitz
A Sketch of Historical Aesthetics	167	(14)
Michael Kelly
Reflection and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Marx Wartofsky	181	(6)
Tom Huhn
Photography and Vision	187	(6)
Barbara E. Savedoff
Why Is Architecture a ``Social'' Art?	193	(14)
Saul Fisher
Part V: Constructivism, Praxis, and Social Philosophy
The Marxian Concept of Praxis	207	(8)
Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
Marx, the Jewish Question, and the Invention of the Proletariat	215	(14)
John Pittman
Practiced Economies: From Marx to Marx	229	(14)
Raphael Sassower
The Mind's Eye and the Hand's Brain: On Wartofsky's Philosophy of Medicine	243	(16)
Mary Ann G. Cutter
Index	259	(10)
About the Contributors	269