epistemological

Examples of epistemological in the following topics:

• Introduction to Epistemology and Economic Methodology

  • Epistemology is the study of the nature and limits of knowing.
  • A quick survey of some of the basic ideas in epistemology provides an enlightened humility.

• Piaget

  • Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children.
  • His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology. " He believed answers for the epistemological questions at his time could be better addressed by looking at their genetic components.
  • Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children.

• Sorting Out Variations on the Terms "Constructionism" and Constructivism"

  • Several of the important perspectives about learning discussed in this eBook are really in essence epistemologies – that is, sets of beliefs about the nature of knowledge.
  • The table below presents several variants of the terms "constructivism" and "constructionism. " Four of these are essentially philosophical perspectives about how we as learners come to know what we know, i.e., epistemologies; and one (Papert's Constructionism) is a theory of learning tied to a particular instructional strategy.
  • One important point to note is the distinction between epistemology, a set of beliefs about knowing, and ontology, a set of beliefs about what exists or what is real.
  • While constructionist or constructivist epistemologies generally insist that individuals construct their own realities, and no two persons' realities will be the same, this does not necessarily mean that those who hold these views believe multiple realities exist.
  • However, usually this may be taken as an epistemological statement, not an ontological statement.

• Introduction to Ways of Knowing

  • The study of methodology and epistemology provides a process by which this introspection of economics as an academic discipline can proceed.
  • Epistemology is the study of the origin, nature, methods and limits of knowledge.
  • Methodology is one aspect of epistemology.
  • Many economists have participated in the explorations into methodology and epistemology.

• Definition and Background

  • The underlying premise is founded in constructivist epistemology.

• Technology

  • The study of the nature and limits of knowing (or knowledge) is called epistemology.
  • Epistemology and the dual problems of (1) What do I know?

• Pragmatism

  • Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions.

• Research on Cognitive Tools

  • Many educators saw the epistemology of mathematics education change with the advent of the electronic calculator.

• Rationalism

  • The philosophers who held this view most clearly were Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, whose attempts to grapple with the epistemological and metaphysical problems raised by Descartes led to a development of the fundamental approach of rationalism.
  • Kant named his brand of epistemology (theory of knowledge) "transcendental idealism" and he first laid out these views in his famous work The Critique of Pure Reason.

• Brief Survey of Epistemology