Constructivism and practice : toward a historical epistemology / [edited by] Carol C. Gould.

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Language
English
Published/​Created
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003], ©2003.
Description
xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction / Carol C. Gould
  • Pt. I. Knowledge and Social Practice
  • 1. The Construction of Knowledge / Joseph Margolis
  • 2. Different Worlds, History, and Progress / Tom Rockmore
  • Pt. II. Language, Truth, and Modes of Representation
  • 3. Dialogue as Praxis: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Historical Epistemology, and Truth / Lisa M. Dolling
  • 4. A Distinction Too Few or Too Many? A Vindication of the Analytic vs. Synthetic Distinction / Jaakko Hintikka
  • 5. Aspects, Object, and Representations / Anton Alterman
  • 6. Representation in Art and Science / Stephen Toulmin
  • Pt. III. Science and the Construction of Knowledge
  • 7. The Idea of Quantity at the Origin of the Legitimacy of Mathematization in Physics / Michel Paty
  • 8. "Critical Realism": Wartofsky and Bhaskar / John Stachel
  • Pt. IV. Art in Social Context
  • 9. Art as Reflective Praxis: On Marx Wartofsky's Historical Materialist Aesthetics / Gregg Horowitz --
  • 10. A Sketch of Historical Aesthetics / Michael Kelly
  • 11. Reflection and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Marx Wartofsky / Tom Huhn
  • 12. Photography and Vision / Barbara E. Savedoff
  • 13. Why Is Architecture a "Social" Art? / Saul Fisher
  • Pt. V. Constructivism, Praxis, and Social Philosophy
  • 14. The Marxian Concept of Praxis / Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
  • 15. Marx, the Jewish Question, and the Invention of the Proletariat / John Pittman
  • 16. Practiced Economies: From Marx to Marx / Raphael Sassower
  • 17. The Mind's Eye and the Hand's Brain: On Wartofsky's Philosophy of Medicine / Mary Ann G. Cutter.
ISBN
  • 0742512649 (alk. paper)
  • 0742512657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002009257
OCLC
50034834
RCP
C - S
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