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Contemporary liberal political justification is often accused of preaching to the converted: liberal principles are acceptable only to people already committed to liberal values. Catriona McKinnon addresses this important criticism by arguing that self-respect and its social conditions should be placed at the heart of the liberal approach to justification. A commitment to self-respect delivers a commitment to the liberal values of toleration and public reason, but self-respect itself is not an exclusively liberal value

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Arguments for Ethical Constructivism -- Chapter 1 Ethical Constructivism and Its Origins -- 1 Supernaturalist and Realist Externalism -- 2 Subjectivist and Contractarian Internalism -- 3 Kantian Transcendentalism and Procedural Morality -- 4 Korsgaard's Neo-Kantian Thoroughgoing Constructivism -- 5 Saving Constructivism from Inadequacies: Enlightenism -- Chapter 2 Public Reasons as the Basis of Objective Morality -- 1 Procedural Publicity -- 2 Reasons as the Basis for Morality

Fully accessible to students and scholars alike, this engaging book introduces the constructivist approach to understanding world affairs. In a highly readable and witty way, it shows how people and their social relations are the basis for everything around us -- International Relations included

Preliminary Material /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Learning as constructive activity /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Reconstructing the concept of knowledge /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Facts and the self from a constructivist point of view /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Signs, communication, and language /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- How do we mean? /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- On the concept of interpretation /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Piaget and the radical constructivist epistemology /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Aspects of constructivism /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- The end of a grand illusion /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- The simplicity complex /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- The logic of scientific fallibility /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- The incommensurability of science and poetic wisdom /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Farewell to objectivity /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- The radical constructivist view of science /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Cybernetics and the theory of knowledge /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Notes on the concept of change /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Abstraction, re-presentation, and reflection /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- Representation and deduction /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe and Kenneth Tobin -- A constructivist approach to experiential foundations of mathematical concepts /Marie Larochelle , Edith Ackermann , Gérard Fourez , Jacques Désautels , Leslie P. Steffe .

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.