El autor cuestiona los argumentos más tradicionales sobre la naturaleza del conocimiento, abordando, entre otros temas, el estatus de las ciencias naturales, desde el conflicto entre los enfoques biológico y social de la enfermedad mental hasta los distintos conceptos de la inve…
Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that,…
"For a good part of the twentieth century, the classic pragmatists--Peirce, James, and Dewey--and pragmatism in general were largely ignored by analytic philosophers. They were said to hold such untenable views as whatever best satisfies our needs is true and that the end justif…
A primera vista, todos los hablantes estamos de acuerdo sobre el sentido del término "realidad": es el terreno seguro, la base inconmovible de nuestras vidas, lo opuesto a "opinión" o "punto de vista" particular y subjetivo. Con su estilo caracterísitico, Watzlawick les muestra …
This book presents twelve chapters on constructivism -- some sympathetic, others critical -- by a group of moral philosophers. 'Kantian constructivism holds that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. Ap…
The collection and treatment of traces which reveal who we are and what we do naturally piques our interest when it pertains to others, and anxiety when it concerns ourselves. Do we truly know what a trace is' And if knowledge is power, how vulnerable are we in the public sphere…
