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Preliminary Material -- What is Science? -- The Role of Technology and Mathematics -- Constructivism – A Theory of Learning and Knowing -- Reality, Truth and Viability -- The Metaphor of Truth -- The Story of Science -- The Game of Prediction and Retrodiction -- Towards a Radical-Constructivist Philosophy of Physics -- Ontological Aspects of Radical Constructivism -- The What and Why of Science Education -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Libert

9 Emergent Order without the Law10 The Effects of Context on Behavior; 11 Investment Trust Games; 12 Reciprocity in Trust Games; PART 4: ORDER AND RATIONALITY IN METHOD AND MIND; 13 Rationality in Science; 14 Neuroeconomics; 15 A Summary; References; Index

Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion-idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, he surveys and classifies some of its major forms, giving particular attention to Kant. He argues that Kant provides the all-important link between three main types of idealism: those associated with Plato, the new way of ideas, and German idealism. The author also makes a case for the contemporary relevance of at least one strand in the tangled idealist web, a strand most clearly identified with Kant: constructivism. In terms of the philosophical tradition, Rockmore contends, constructivism offers a lively, interesting, and important approach to knowledge after the decline of metaphysical realism

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds associated with four motives: appetite, spirit, reason and fear, and demonstrates how each generates a different logic concerning cooperation, conflict and risk-taking. Expanding and documenting the utility of his theory in a series of historical case studies, ranging from classical Greece to the war in Iraq, he presents a novel explanation for the rise of the state and the causes of war, and offers a reformulation of prospect theory. This is a novel theory of politics by one of the world's leading scholars of international relations

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Where Justice Is Called a Virtue": Public Reason and Civic Formation in Thomas Hobbes -- 2. Compact Before Liberal Constructivism: The Divine Politics of John Locke -- 3. Governing Subjects and Breeding Citizens: Dilemmas of Public Reasoning and Public Judgment in Locke -- 4. Rousseau's Contractarian Republic: The Culture of Constitutional Self-Government -- 5. John Rawls,Public Reason,and Transformative Liberalism Today -- Conclusion: The Politics of Not Settling Down -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

This book presents for the first time an interdisciplinary view of property development and property developers. Fourteen contributor are brought together here from leading researchers and respected practitioners, including property analysts, economists, geographers, planners and sociologists. This rounded picture of property research explores: * the development of quantitative and qualitative research methods * theories ranging from mainstream economics to social constructivism * the inter-relationships between the economic and the social, and between individuals and organisations and their e

This collection explores 'state of the art' methods to understand International. Relations in South Asia, from disciplinary, pedagogic and epistemological standpoints. It probes alternative methods to comprehend international politics in the region:. through constructivism, critical theories, post-colonial traditions of thought. and feminist approaches. International Relations in South Asia: Search for an Alternative Paradigm. offers perspectives from various Asian countries like Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,. Bangladesh and India and captures contemporary thinking with articles that are. being

Substantive moral theory / Philip Pettit -- Virtue and nature / Christopher W. Gowans -- The importance of metaphysical realism for ethical knowledge / Douglas B. Rasmussen -- Why moral judgments can be objective / Tibor R. Machan -- The importance of the subject in objective morality : distinguishing objective from intrinsic value / Tara Smith -- Evaluative concepts and objective values : rand on moral objectivity / Darryl F. WrighT -- Aristotelian constructivism / Mark LeBar -- Moral construction as a task : sources and limits / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. -- Constructing normative objectivity in ethics / David B. Wong -- What does moral phenomenology tell us about moral objectivity? / Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons -- Imaginative resistance and psychological necessity / Julia Driver -- Objectivism and relational good / Connie S. Rosati -- Foundations in Aquinas's ethics / Scott MacDonald -- Revisionary intuitionism / Michael Huemer -- Moral objectivity / Nicholas Rescher

Introduction: constructivism, rationalism and the study of norms in Japanese foreign policy / Yoichiro Sato and Keiko Hirata -- Security and diplomatic policy -- Where do norms come from? Fundations of Japan's postwar pacifists / Akitoshi Miyashita -- International norms and civil society: new influences on Japanese security policy / Keiko Hirata -- Norms, structures, and Japan's "Northern territories" policy / Kimie Hara -- Three norms of collective defense and Japan's overseas troop dispatches / Yoichiro Sato -- International political economic issues -- Humanitarian and democratic norms in Japan's ODA distributions / Yoichiro Sato and Masahiko Asano -- Norms in Japan's foreign aid policy in the South Pacific / Sandra Tarte -- Japan in Latin America's debt management, 1982-91 / Saori Katada -- Environmental issues -- Japan's whaling politics / Keiko Hirata -- The Kyoto protocol from formulation to ratification: Japan's role in international climate negotiations / Eric Shibuya