The Invented Reality
Subtitle: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? : Contributions to Constructivism
By: edited and with a commentary by Paul Watzlawick.
Contributors: Watzlawick, Paul.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Norton
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Erfundene Wirklichkeit
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Constructivism (Philosophy); Reality
Other titles: Erfundene Wirklichkeit
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Translation of: Die erfundene Wirklichkeit.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Forword; title: Part 1 Introduction; title: Ernst von Glaserfeld; title: An Introduction to Radical Constructivism; title: Heinz von Foerster; title: On Constructing a Reality; title: Part 2 Effect or Cause?; title: Rupert Riedl; title: The Consequences of Causal Thinking; title: Paul Watzlawick; title: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; title: David L. Rosenhan; title: On Being Sane in Insane Places; title: Rolf Breuer; title: Self-Reflexivity in Literature: The Example of Samuel Beckett's Novel Trilogy; title: Part 3 The Imperfect Perfection; title: Jon Elster; title: Active and Passive Nagation: An Essay in Ibanskian Sociology; title: Paul Watzlawick; title: Components of Ideological "Realities"; title: Part 4 The Fly and the Fly-Bottle; title: Gabriel Stolzenberg; title: Can an Inquiry into the Foundations of Mathematics Tell Us Anything Interesting About Mind?; title: Francisco J. Varela; title: The Creative Circle: Sketches on the Natural History of Circularity; title: Epilogue; title: The Authors; title: Name Index; title: Subject Index