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Exposing the Roots of Constructivism - Nominalism and the Ontology of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Exposing the Roots of Constructivism - Nominalism and the Ontology of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Constructivism dominates over other theories of knowledge in much
of western academia, especially the humanities and social sciences.
In Exposing the Roots of Constructivism: Nominalism and the
Ontology of Knowledge, R. Scott Smith argues that constructivism is
linked to the embrace of nominalism, the theory that everything is
particular and located in space and time. Indeed, nominalism is
sufficient for a view to be constructivist. However, the natural
sciences still enjoy great prestige from the "fact-value split."
They are often perceived as giving us knowledge of the facts of
reality, and not merely our constructs. In contrast, ethics and
religion, which also have been greatly influenced by nominalism,
usually are perceived as giving us just our constructs and
opinions. Yet, even the natural sciences have embraced nominalism,
and Smith shows that this will undermine knowledge in those
disciplines as well. Indeed, the author demonstrates that, at best,
nominalism leaves us with only interpretations, but at worst, it
undermines all knowledge whatsoever. However, there are many clear
examples of knowledge we do have in the many different disciplines,
and therefore those must be due to a different ontology of
properties. Thus, nominalism should be rejected. In its place, the
author defends a kind of Platonic realism about properties.
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