Showing papers in "Constructivist Foundations in 2018"
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TL;DR: In this paper, the challenges by embodied, enactive, extended and ecological approaches to cognition have provided good reasons to shift away from neurocentric theories. Problem: Classic cognitivist accounts.
Abstract: Context: Challenges by embodied, enactive, extended and ecological approaches to cognition have provided good reasons to shift away from neurocentric theories. Problem: Classic cognitivist accounts…
35 citations
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TL;DR: This article matches machine learning and interactive machine learning with radical constructivism (RC) to build a tentative radical constructivist framework for iML.
Abstract: Context: In this article we match machine learning (ML) and interactive machine learning (iML) with radical constructivism (RC) to build a tentative radical constructivist framework for iML; we …
18 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors recognized the research of lived experience as crucial for the understanding of their subject matter and recognized the importance of living experience in the study of mind as a critical source of knowledge.
Abstract: Context: Philosophical and - more recently - empirical approaches to the study of mind have recognized the research of lived experience as crucial for the understanding of their subject matter. …
13 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the integration of sensorimotor signals and prior beliefs contribute to our sense of body, and an influential framework in the study of the bodily self is Gallagher's distinction between …
Abstract: Context: The integration of sensorimotor signals and prior beliefs contribute to our sense of body. An influential framework in the study of the bodily self is Gallagher’s distinction between …
12 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, South African public universities are currently undergoing a transitional period as they traverse the sensitive road of curriculum redesign that achieves an inclusive approach to education, and the authors discuss the challenges faced by them.
Abstract: Context: South African public universities are currently undergoing a transitional period as they traverse the sensitive road of curriculum redesign that achieves an inclusive approach to education…
8 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors offer a theory of agency that is general enough to apply to whole organisms and single cells, and meaningful enough to highlight problems that embodied cognition theory has highlighted.
Abstract: Upshot: The authors offer a theory of agency that is general enough to apply to whole organisms and single cells, and meaningful enough to highlight problems that embodied cognition theory has …
5 citations
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TL;DR: Ratcliff's target article is an insightful introduction to a major corpus, the journal comprising the notes of Jean and Valentine Piaget in their studies of their three children as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Ratcliff's target article is an insightful introduction to a major corpus, the journal comprising the notes of Jean and Valentine Piaget in their studies of their three children. These studies were part of a research program in what Jean Piaget called "genetic epistemology." My commentary focuses on a series of epistemological issues central to this theory of knowledge. © 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel. All rights reserved.
4 citations
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TL;DR: It is argued that artificial constructivist agents should master the laws of feedback contingencies, and should process input data as feedback from their actions rather than as percepts representing the environment.
Abstract: We support Fullsack’s claim that contingency is essential in the conception of artificial constructivist agents. Linking this claim to O’Regan and Noe’s theory of sensorimotor contingencies…
4 citations
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TL;DR: Constructivist epistemology is not a doctrinal set of clear and consistent theses and assumptions but a movement full of tensions, with minimally integrated lines of discussions.
Abstract: Context: Constructivist epistemology is not a doctrinal set of clear and consistent theses and assumptions but a movement full of tensions, with minimally integrated lines of discussions. Problem: …
4 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Gallagher has not considered all the aspects of embodied selfhood in his phenomenological theory of an embodied self-hood, and they show that this is not the case.
Abstract: Shaun Gallagher’s philosophical inquiries are well known, among other things, for a phenomenological theory of an embodied selfhood. However, I show here that Gallagher has not considered all the…
3 citations
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TL;DR: Simulation theory and theory theory are interaction accounts of theory of mind that have been neurocentrically characterized and a hybrid of these theories approximates the interaction theory of science.
Abstract: Simulation theory and theory theory are interaction accounts of theory of mind that have been neurocentrically characterized. A hybrid of these theories approximates the interaction theory of …
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors maintain that in order to improve the dialectical approaches of cognition, it is necessary to take into account Hartmann's concept of dialectical process, and they use it in their own work.
Abstract: In this commentary I maintain that in order to improve the dialectical approaches of cognition by using the Hegelian concept of the dialectical process it is necessary to take into account Hartmann…
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TL;DR: The theme of lived experience involves an intensely personal, subjective, existential dimension; if this is not taken up, something essential is missing as discussed by the authors, and this is the dimension that needs to be taken up.
Abstract: The theme of lived experience involves an intensely personal, subjective, existential dimension; if this is not taken up, something essential is missing.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that this may not be a restrictive factor in curricula redesign, and instead, they argue that it may be a beneficial factor in curriculum redesign.
Abstract: Upshot: University engineering qualifications are accredited according to various international accords that are perceived as a restrictive factor in curricula redesign. I argue that this may not …
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TL;DR: The authors suggest that confusion and puzzling results in bodily illusions research might arise because researchers have been operating under the false premise that they were studying illusions. But they also suggest that the results in these studies might arise from false assumptions.
Abstract: Conflicting and puzzling results in bodily illusions research might arise because researchers have been operating under the false premise that they were studying illusions. I suggest that the …
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TL;DR: In this article, the validity and practicalities of first-person methodologies through the lens of a constructivist approach are highlighted, based on some of the arguments put forth by the authors of this paper.
Abstract: This commentary highlights the validity and practicalities of first-person methodologies through the lens of a constructivist approach. Building on some of the arguments put forth by the authors of…
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TL;DR: This paper extended the discussion on three main different levels raised in the commentaries: (1) an inclusion of the senses of agency and ownership to extend our theoretical model; (2) a …
Abstract: We aim to extend the discussion on three main different levels raised in the commentaries: (1) an inclusion of the senses of agency and ownership to extend our theoretical model; (2) a …
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TL;DR: Baron locates the decolonisation of the curriculum within the classroom, repurposing radically constructivist approaches to teaching and learning and giving them a sense of social and political.
Abstract: Baron locates the decolonisation of the curriculum within the classroom, repurposing radically constructivist approaches to teaching and learning and giving them a sense of social and political …
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TL;DR: In this article, the target article claims that constructivism should be regarded as a manifold movement, but not as a unique philosophical doctrine, and the authors evaluate the legitimacy of this claim.
Abstract: The target article claims that constructivism should be regarded as a manifold movement, but not as a unique philosophical doctrine. This commentary evaluates the legitimacy of this claim.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a target article combats some psychologists' and phenomenologists' blind stereotyped vision of Piaget's ideas on early development and the growing ignorance of his works.
Abstract: Context: This target article combats some psychologists’ and phenomenologists’ blind stereotyped vision of Piaget’s ideas on early development and the growing ignorance of his works. Problem…
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TL;DR: The authors raise some questions about the applicability of Gallagher's distinction between body image and body schema to the experimental research reported and discussed in the target domain, and raise some concerns about Gallagher's characterization of body schema.
Abstract: In my commentary, I raise some questions about the applicability of Gallagher’s distinction between body image and body schema to the experimental research reported and discussed in the target …
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TL;DR: Based on 40 years of practice using descriptive experience sampling, the authors clarified three important ways that my view of reflective inquiry differs from that of Kordes and Demsar, and differentiated their approach from ours.
Abstract: Based on 40 years of practice using descriptive experience sampling, I clarify three important ways that my view of reflective inquiry differs from that of Kordes and Demsar. I differentiate …
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of temporality and the social dimension of the body in Piaget's early works, notably on the content of the notebooks written by the author and his wife, Valentine, is discussed.
Abstract: Open peer commentary on the article “A Temporal Puzzle: Metamorphosis of the Body in Piaget’s Early Writings” by Marc J. Ratcliff. Abstract: In this commentary, I would like to know more details of the role of temporality and the social dimension of the body in Piaget’s early works, notably on the content of the notebooks written by Piaget and his wife, Valentine. Through diachronic-synchronic concepts drawn from linguistics, I propose a discussion of the methodological problems of Piaget’s observation method, as presented by Ratcliff. In principle, taking a look at the methodological steps through these concepts could greatly contribute to the reflection on Piaget’s units of analysis and thus to his interpretation of the emergence and coordination of the multimodality of skills.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that autonomous systems cannot be pre-specified or pre-programmed, but enact themselves based on history, sociality and internal fragmentation, and that history entails nonlinear, circularly causal processes.
Abstract: Upshot: Autonomous systems cannot be pre-specified or pre-programmed, but enact themselves based on history, sociality and internal fragmentation. History entails nonlinear, circularly causal …
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TL;DR: When a phenomenon, or a concept such as autonomy, is the outcome of circular causality, then analysis in terms of linear causation is a recipe for misunderstanding as mentioned in this paper, and the Daisyworld parable as used in this paper is a good example.
Abstract: When a phenomenon, or a concept such as autonomy, is the outcome of circular causality then analysis in terms of linear causation is a recipe for misunderstanding. The Daisyworld parable as used …
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is admitted that it is difficult to establish a direct, positive logical bridge from epistemic considerations to ontological conclusions, and that epistemic notions can be used as a bridge between the two worlds.
Abstract: Upshot: It is admittedly difficult, if at all possible, to establish a direct, positive logical bridge from epistemic considerations to ontological conclusions Yet, epistemic considerations can …
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the attempt to explain matter in terms of mind (idealism) is often considered a mirror image of that of explaining mind (truthfulness).
Abstract: Context: The alleged dichotomy between mind and matter is pervasive. Therefore, the attempt to explain matter in terms of mind (idealism) is often considered a mirror image of that of explaining …