Methodical culturalism is a philosophical approach developed by
Peter Janich and his pupils. Its core statement is that
science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
is not developed from purely theoretical considerations, but as a development of everyday,
proto-scientific human behavior—in other words, that science is a stylized form of everyday knowledge-forming practice.
Thus, from the viewpoint of methodical culturalism, science is understood as a continuation of the practical processes of the everyday world and must be analyzed from this aspect systematically and methodically.
Methodical culturalism is a development of the
methodical constructivism of the
Erlangen School of constructivism.
See also
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Action theory
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Constructivist epistemology
Constructivism is a view in the philosophy of science that maintains that scientific knowledge is constructed by the scientific community, which seeks to measure and construct models of the natural world. According to the constructivist, nat ...
External links
Peter Janich: KulturalismusPeter Janich: Kultur des Wissens – natürlich begrenzt?Dirk Hartmann: Willensfreiheit und die Autonomie der Kulturwissenschaften(pdf-Datei; 176 KB)
Philosophy of science
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