Is radical constructivism tenable?

Cinta de Moebio 46:1-8 (2013)
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In this work I try to show that radical, epistemological constructivism is an untenable thesis. Not so much because the arguments in favor of such a thesis are deficient, but because there are crucial problems that no constructivist seems to have solved and that must be solved in order for it to be possible to even formulate the thesis in question. I also mention a consequence that these considerations have in education. En este trabajo intento mostrar que el constructivismo epistemológico radical es un tesis insostenible, no tanto porque los argumentos a favor de dicha tesis sean deficientes sino porque hasta ahora existen problemas cruciales que ningún constructivista parece haber resuelto y que, sin embargo, deben ser resueltos para poder siquiera formular la tesis en cuestión. También me refiero a una consecuencia que estas consideraciones tienen en educación

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Alfredo Gaete
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

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