I found this in my notes. Something that challenges the 'critical realism' thinking I've been doing recently.
"Some dynamicists are anti-Piagetian, rejecting representation and realism, in favour of ‘world making’. Cognitive scientists in general allow that different creatures – including humans of different ages or historical periods – inhabit different environments to the extent that they (subjectively) represent different objects of the same (objective) world. But these dynamicists reject the subject-object distinction and the realism associated with it (Haugeland in press). Stressing the close dynamic coupling between organism and environment they argue that ‘environments’ are wholly constituted by world-embedded activities of the creatures concerned: there is no such thing as an organism-independent, objectively real world. Based on ideas by Heidegger."
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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