1. Open Peer Commentaries
- Author
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Kjellman, Arne, Schmidt, Siegfried J., Bettoni, Marco, Le Moigne, Jean-Louis, Hersh, Reuben, Dykstra, Dewey I., Jr., Steffe, Leslie P., Kenny, Vincent, Mueller, Karl H., Meyer, Peter, Quale, Andreas, Raskin, Jonathan D., Tsvasman, Leon R., Birbaumer, Niels, Butz, Martin V., Di Paolo, Ezequiel, Krippendorff, Klaus, Restivo, Sal, Baecker, Dirk, Fuchs, Christian, Gergen, Kenneth J., von Glasersfeld, Ernst, Kjellman, Arne, Schmidt, Siegfried J., Bettoni, Marco, Le Moigne, Jean-Louis, Hersh, Reuben, Dykstra, Dewey I., Jr., Steffe, Leslie P., Kenny, Vincent, Mueller, Karl H., Meyer, Peter, Quale, Andreas, Raskin, Jonathan D., Tsvasman, Leon R., Birbaumer, Niels, Butz, Martin V., Di Paolo, Ezequiel, Krippendorff, Klaus, Restivo, Sal, Baecker, Dirk, Fuchs, Christian, Gergen, Kenneth J., and von Glasersfeld, Ernst
- Abstract
Open peer commentary on the target article "Who Conceives of Society?" by Ernst von Glasersfeld. First paragraph: Ernst von Glasersfeld sets out to explain how familiar patterns (signs) arise in private experience - and how they are extracted or " recognized" as such. These patterns are recursive, which imposes significance (familiarity) on them, and are, in the course of time, collected into a " bulk of experience." I think a convinced constructivist can - if hesitantly - accept his rendering, even though it is one that lacks the stringency one expects from a supposedly natural scientist ( 46). However, the crucial point is that this paper does not address the convinced constructivist but rather the opposite camps, and I doubt he succeeds in convincing them., QC 20190212
- Published
- 2008