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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.

"Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach and M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, 2nd ed. (2009). This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf's approach to international relations and makes a decisive contribution to the debates in IR concerning theory. It embeds the theoretical project in the wider horizon of how we understand ourselves and the world. Onuf updates earlier themes and his general constructivist approach, and develops some newer lines of research, such as the work on metaphors and the re-grounding in much more Aristotle than before. A complement to the author's groundbreaking book of 1989, World of Our Making, this tightly argued book draws extensively from philosophy and social theory to advance constructivism in International Relations. Making Sense, Making Worlds will be vital reading for students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, social theory and law."--Publisher's website

This volume addresses both Alexander Wendt's social theory and international relations theory, exploring a variety of constructivist debates without reducing constructivism to one single position.

Realism and constructivism are often viewed as competing paradigms for understanding international relations, though scholars are increasingly arguing that the two are compatible. Edited by one of the leading proponents of realist constructivism, this volume shows what realist constructivism looks like in practice by innovatively combining exposition and critiques of the realist constructivist approach with a series of international case studies. Each chapter addresses a key empirical question in international relations and provides important guidance for how to combine both approaches effectively in research. Addressing future directions and possibilities for realist constructivism in international relations, this book makes a significant contribution to the theorizing of global politics