Abstract

MAZZONI, Julio  and  CASTANON, Gustavo Arja. Trivial or radical constructivism?. Psicol. pesq. [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.2, pp. 230-240. ISSN 1982-1247.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/Z1982-1247201400020012.

With some influence in psychotherapy and pedagogy, radical constructivism is a theory proposed by Ernst von Glasersfeld which presents itself as revolutionary and argues that knowledge is nothing more than a construct that we make based on our experience subjective data. However, if radical, it is a contemporary form of solipsism; if it renounces solipsism, it is a trivial Piagetian realism. Sterile in practice, radical constructivism is a contemporary idealistic variation of relativism that proposes theses condemned by clear contradictions, including the assumption of ontological presuppositions to deny the need for ontology, the use of empirical research for sustaining that objective knowledge does not exist and the use of language to communicate that language cannot communicate.

Keywords : radical constructivism; constructivism; epistemology; Glasersfeld.

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