<i>The Tao of Physics</i>

Capra, F.; Mansfield, V. N.

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“…For the fact that the opportunity to achieve a further and more meaningful integration is actually there, we geographers have to thank once again a collection of disciplines beyond geography, which provide us with ideas we might synthesise within the framework of our own discipline (see Hoffman, 1959;Capra, 1976;Bohm, 1983). The concept is infectious and has spread, in a specialised form, to biology in the controversial work of Sheldrake (1983).…”

Section: Mind and Naturementioning

confidence: 97%

The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography

Thom

Woolmington

1988

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Section: Mind and Naturementioning

confidence: 97%

The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography

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Woolmington

1988

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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“…Nature presents itself to experience as an undifferentiated flux which our various constructions attempt to cognitively organise. The view that material reality is in a constant state of change, which extends from Heraclitus to process philosophy and modern quantum physics in the West (on the relevance of process philosophy and quantum physics to environmental philosophy see Capra 1983;Sessions 1985;Zimmerman 1988;Callicott 1989, chap. 9;Mathews 1991, chap.…”

Section: A Constructivist Theory Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Reconciling Realism and Constructivism in Environmental Ethics

Evanoff¹

2005

Environmental Values

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This paper outlines a constructivist approach to environmental ethics which attempts to reconcile realism in the ontological sense, i.e., the view that there is an objective material world existing outside of human consciousness, with the view that how nature is understood and acted in are epistemologically and morally constructed. It is argued that while knowledge and ethics are indeed culturally variable, social constructions of nature are nonetheless constrained by how things actually stand in the world. The ʻrealistʼ version of constructivism proposed here can be linked to dialectical forms of reasoning which see knowledge and ethics as arising out of human interactions with an objectively real environment, and contrasted with strong constructivist views which see nature as ʻnothing more thanʼ a social construct. While both the physical environment and human attitudes towards it are in part socially constructed, nature also retains a measure of autonomy, or ʻwildnessʼ, apart from human constructions. KEYWORDSConstructivism, guiding visions, autonomy of nature, dialectics State University New York At Buffalo = username $REMOTE_ASSR = IP address Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:39:41 = Date & Time RICHARD J. EVANOFF 62 tendency to equate epistemological and moral constructions of nature with its ontological reality. In Soperʼs words,It is true that we can make no distinction between the ʻrealityʼ of nature and its cultural representation that is not itself conceptual, but this does not justify the conclusion that there is no ontological distinction between the ideas we have of nature and that which the ideas are about: that since nature is only signified in human discourse, inverted commas ʻnatureʼ is nature, and we should therefore remove the inverted comma (1995, p. 151).Contemporary debates about constructivism, which have influenced a variety of disciplines particularly in the social sciences (for good overviews see Holstein and Miller 1993;Burr 1995;Benton and Craib 2001), have tended to revolve around the question of whether objective evidence can be appealed to in settling disputes about how things actually stand in the world. Social constructionism, particularly in its postmodern variations, has tended towards a reductive idealism which sees reality itself as ʻnothing more thanʼ a social construct. Edwards, Ashmore and Potterʼs contention that there is no ʻ...objective world as given, as distinct from processes of representation; as directly apprehended, independent of any particular descriptionʼ (1995, p. 26) typifies the view that ʻnatureʼ has no reality apart from how it has been socially constructed. Global warming, for example, is seen not as a ʻrealʼ phenomenon which can be empirically observed and scientifically explained but rather as something which people situated in different social groups have conflicting views about, none of which can be privileged over any other. The relativism implicit in this approach suggests that political debate and public policy are largely decided on the basis of which side can ...

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“…Such a worldview, argue philosophers and scientists such as David Bohm (1980), Marilyn Ferguson (1982), Jean Houston (1982), and Fritjof Capra (1976Capra ( , 1983, has resulted in unparalleled advances in technology but an ever-deepening cultural crisis around the world; a crisis characterised by an alientation of humankind from the natural world, of different spheres of human activity from each other and of one group of human beings from another and by a corresponding fragmentation of our inner selves. They offer, and discern widespread stirrings of, an holistic or systemic paradigm which takes as its starting point that everything is 'penetrated with connectedness and relatedness' (Greig et al, 1989, p. 13) and which values above all insight that 'penetrates beyond the fixities and particulars of the given to an underlying wholeness that is the source of all genuine knowledge' (Sloan, 1982, p. 2).…”

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Towards an Irreducible Global Perspective in School

Selby

1991

Westminster Studies in Education

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The Tao of Physics

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The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography

The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography

Reconciling Realism and Constructivism in Environmental Ethics

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