Fiona J. Hibberd
Unfolding Social Constructionism
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For more than half of the 20_ century, psychologists sought to locate the causes of behaviour in individuals and tended to neglect the possibility of locating the psy chological in the social. In the late 1960s, a reaction to that neglect brought about a "crisis" in social psychology. This "crisis" did not affect all social psychologists; some remained seemingly oblivious to its presence; others dismissed its signifi cance and continued much as before. But, in certain quarters, the psychological was re-conceptualised as the social, and the social was taken to be sui generis. Moreover, the…mehr
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For more than half of the 20_ century, psychologists sought to locate the causes of behaviour in individuals and tended to neglect the possibility of locating the psy chological in the social. In the late 1960s, a reaction to that neglect brought about a "crisis" in social psychology. This "crisis" did not affect all social psychologists; some remained seemingly oblivious to its presence; others dismissed its signifi cance and continued much as before. But, in certain quarters, the psychological was re-conceptualised as the social, and the social was taken to be sui generis. Moreover, the possibility of developing general laws and theories to describe and explain social interaction was rejected on the grounds that, as social beings, our actions vary from occasion to occasion, and are, for many reasons, unrepeatable. There is, so it was thought, an inherent instability in the phenomena of interest. The nomothetic ideal was said to rest on individualistic cause-effect positivism ofthe kind which (arguably) characterised the natural sciences, but social psychology (so it was said) is an historical inquiry, and its conclusions are necessarily historically relative (Gergen, 1973). Events outside psychology converged to give impetus to the "crisis" within.
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- History and Philosophy of Psychology
- Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-387-22974-4
- 2005
- Seitenzahl: 230
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2005
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 488g
- ISBN-13: 9780387229744
- ISBN-10: 0387229744
- Artikelnr.: 13722212
- History and Philosophy of Psychology
- Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-387-22974-4
- 2005
- Seitenzahl: 230
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2005
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 488g
- ISBN-13: 9780387229744
- ISBN-10: 0387229744
- Artikelnr.: 13722212
Fiona J. Hibberd, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
1. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AS A METATHEORY OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
1.1. A POST-MODERNIST PROGRAM
1.2. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
1.3. POTTER'S DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
1.4. SHOTTER'S CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS
1.5. GERGEN'S METATHEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
1.6. UNFOLDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
LANGUAGE AND REALITY
1.6.1. Psychology's theories are not derived from observation
(A1)
1.6.2. Psychology's theories do not depict, map, mirror,
contain, convey, picture, reflect, store or represent
reality (A2)
1.6.3. Psychological phenomena are not discourse-
independent (A3)
1.6.4. Summary
1.7. GERGEN'S RATIONALE FOR PROPOSITIONS A1, A2
AND A3
1.7.1. A theory of meaning involving external reference is
implausible
1.7.2. The meanings of psychology's theoretical terms
areindeterminate
1.7.3. Meaning is contextually dependent
1.7.4. Meaning has social origins within situations
1.8. CONCLUSION
2. RELATIVISM AND SELF-REFUTATION
2.1. INTRODUCTION
2.2. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHARGE OF RELATIVISM
2.3. RELATIVISM DEFINED
2.4. EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.4.1. Epistemological relativism1
2.4.2. Epistemological relativism2
2.5. ONTOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.6. CONCEPTUAL RELATIVISM
2.7. SELF-REFUTATION
2.7.1. The classical refutation of relativism
2.7.2. Mackie's analysis of self-refutation
2.7.3. Ascribing self-refutation to social constructionism
2.8. CONCLUSION
3. NON-FACTUALISM
3.1. INTRODUCTION
3.2. RE-STATING GERGEN'S POSITION
3.3. NON-FACTUALISM DEFINED
3.3.1. The Fregean approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.2. The non-factualist approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.3. Gergen's universal generalisation
3.4. AUSTIN'S CONSTATIVE-PERFORMATIVE
DISTINCTION
3.4.1. The explicit performative formula
3.4.2. A theory of speech acts
3.5. GERGEN'S ALTERNATIVE TO EXTERNAL
REFERENCE AND TO THE RECEIVED
VIEW OF ASSERTION
3.5.1. The appropriation of Austin's theory
3.5.2.Gergen's example of the performative function of words
3.6. DO ALL SPEECH-ACTS EXPRESS STATES OF
AFFAIRS?
3.7. CONCLUSION
4. THE RECEIVED VIEW OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
4.1. INTRODUCTION
4.2. TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTNESS: POSITIVISM,
LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
4.3. THE FAILURE OF POSITIVISM AS A METATHEORY
FOR PSYCHOLOGY
4.4. THE RECEIVED VIEW
4.5. CONCLUSION
5. CONVENTIONALISM
5.1. INTRODUCTION
5.2. CONVENTIONALISM'S INTELLECTUAL ANCESTRY
5.2.1. The context: Kant and J. S. Mill
5.2.2. The emergence of conventionalism:
Hilbert's investigation of Euclidean geometry
5.2.3. Poincaré's theory of the status of geometrical axioms
5.2.4. Poincaré's application of conventionalism to
scientific principles
5.2.5. Concluding remarks
5.3. THE CONVENTIONALISM OF THE LOGICAL
POSITIVISTS
5.3.1. Schlick
5.3.2. Reichenbach
5.3.3. Carnap
5.3.4. Summary
5.4. FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTIONISM VIA KUHN'S ACCOUNT OF
SCIENCE
5.5. CONVENTIONALISM IN GERGEN'S METATHEORY
5.5.1. Psychological theories as conventions
5.5.2. Logic as conventions of discourse
5.6. THE INCOHERENCE OF CONVENTIONALISM
5.6.1. The condition of consistency rests on an empirical
claim
5.6.2. Conventionalism and the fallacy of constitutive
relations
5.6.3. Conventionalism involves dualism
5.6.4. Linguistic conventions are no substitute for logic
5.7. CONCLUSION
6. MEANING AS USE
6.1. INTRODUCTION
6.2. WITTGENSTEIN'S IDENTIFICATION OF
MEANING WITH USE
6.3. SCHLICK'S ADOPTION OF WITTGENSTEIN'S
CRITERION
6.3.1. The principle of verification: early position -
meaning is linked to states of affairs
6.3.2. The principle of verification: middle position -
meaning is sometimes identified with use
6.3.3. The principle of verification: meaning is identified
with use
6.3.4. The connection with operationism
6.3.5. Concluding remarks
6.4. THE CONSTRUCTIONISTS' ADOPTION OF
WITTGENSTEIN'S CRITERION
6.4.1. The contextual dependency of meaning
6.4.2. The similarities with Schlick's appropriation
6.4.3. Social constructionism and operationism
6.4.4. Reconsideration of the received view
6.5. CRITICAL COMMENTS
6.5.1. The incomplete characterisation of meaning
6.5.2. Wittgenstein's examination of the concept 'game'
6.5.3. A disregard for the general
6.6. CONCLUSION
7. PHENOMENALISM AND ITS ANALOGUE
7.1. INTRODUCTION
7.2. THE PHENOMENAL 'GIVEN' IN LOGICAL POSITIVISM
7.3. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM'S CONTINUATION OF
'KNOWLEDGE AS MEDIATED', AND THE LINK TO
KANT
7.3.1. The worst argument in the world: social
constructionism's 'Gem'
7.4. CONCLUSION
8. CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
1.1. A POST-MODERNIST PROGRAM
1.2. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
1.3. POTTER'S DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
1.4. SHOTTER'S CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS
1.5. GERGEN'S METATHEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
1.6. UNFOLDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
LANGUAGE AND REALITY
1.6.1. Psychology's theories are not derived from observation
(A1)
1.6.2. Psychology's theories do not depict, map, mirror,
contain, convey, picture, reflect, store or represent
reality (A2)
1.6.3. Psychological phenomena are not discourse-
independent (A3)
1.6.4. Summary
1.7. GERGEN'S RATIONALE FOR PROPOSITIONS A1, A2
AND A3
1.7.1. A theory of meaning involving external reference is
implausible
1.7.2. The meanings of psychology's theoretical terms
areindeterminate
1.7.3. Meaning is contextually dependent
1.7.4. Meaning has social origins within situations
1.8. CONCLUSION
2. RELATIVISM AND SELF-REFUTATION
2.1. INTRODUCTION
2.2. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHARGE OF RELATIVISM
2.3. RELATIVISM DEFINED
2.4. EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.4.1. Epistemological relativism1
2.4.2. Epistemological relativism2
2.5. ONTOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.6. CONCEPTUAL RELATIVISM
2.7. SELF-REFUTATION
2.7.1. The classical refutation of relativism
2.7.2. Mackie's analysis of self-refutation
2.7.3. Ascribing self-refutation to social constructionism
2.8. CONCLUSION
3. NON-FACTUALISM
3.1. INTRODUCTION
3.2. RE-STATING GERGEN'S POSITION
3.3. NON-FACTUALISM DEFINED
3.3.1. The Fregean approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.2. The non-factualist approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.3. Gergen's universal generalisation
3.4. AUSTIN'S CONSTATIVE-PERFORMATIVE
DISTINCTION
3.4.1. The explicit performative formula
3.4.2. A theory of speech acts
3.5. GERGEN'S ALTERNATIVE TO EXTERNAL
REFERENCE AND TO THE RECEIVED
VIEW OF ASSERTION
3.5.1. The appropriation of Austin's theory
3.5.2.Gergen's example of the performative function of words
3.6. DO ALL SPEECH-ACTS EXPRESS STATES OF
AFFAIRS?
3.7. CONCLUSION
4. THE RECEIVED VIEW OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
4.1. INTRODUCTION
4.2. TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTNESS: POSITIVISM,
LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
4.3. THE FAILURE OF POSITIVISM AS A METATHEORY
FOR PSYCHOLOGY
4.4. THE RECEIVED VIEW
4.5. CONCLUSION
5. CONVENTIONALISM
5.1. INTRODUCTION
5.2. CONVENTIONALISM'S INTELLECTUAL ANCESTRY
5.2.1. The context: Kant and J. S. Mill
5.2.2. The emergence of conventionalism:
Hilbert's investigation of Euclidean geometry
5.2.3. Poincaré's theory of the status of geometrical axioms
5.2.4. Poincaré's application of conventionalism to
scientific principles
5.2.5. Concluding remarks
5.3. THE CONVENTIONALISM OF THE LOGICAL
POSITIVISTS
5.3.1. Schlick
5.3.2. Reichenbach
5.3.3. Carnap
5.3.4. Summary
5.4. FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTIONISM VIA KUHN'S ACCOUNT OF
SCIENCE
5.5. CONVENTIONALISM IN GERGEN'S METATHEORY
5.5.1. Psychological theories as conventions
5.5.2. Logic as conventions of discourse
5.6. THE INCOHERENCE OF CONVENTIONALISM
5.6.1. The condition of consistency rests on an empirical
claim
5.6.2. Conventionalism and the fallacy of constitutive
relations
5.6.3. Conventionalism involves dualism
5.6.4. Linguistic conventions are no substitute for logic
5.7. CONCLUSION
6. MEANING AS USE
6.1. INTRODUCTION
6.2. WITTGENSTEIN'S IDENTIFICATION OF
MEANING WITH USE
6.3. SCHLICK'S ADOPTION OF WITTGENSTEIN'S
CRITERION
6.3.1. The principle of verification: early position -
meaning is linked to states of affairs
6.3.2. The principle of verification: middle position -
meaning is sometimes identified with use
6.3.3. The principle of verification: meaning is identified
with use
6.3.4. The connection with operationism
6.3.5. Concluding remarks
6.4. THE CONSTRUCTIONISTS' ADOPTION OF
WITTGENSTEIN'S CRITERION
6.4.1. The contextual dependency of meaning
6.4.2. The similarities with Schlick's appropriation
6.4.3. Social constructionism and operationism
6.4.4. Reconsideration of the received view
6.5. CRITICAL COMMENTS
6.5.1. The incomplete characterisation of meaning
6.5.2. Wittgenstein's examination of the concept 'game'
6.5.3. A disregard for the general
6.6. CONCLUSION
7. PHENOMENALISM AND ITS ANALOGUE
7.1. INTRODUCTION
7.2. THE PHENOMENAL 'GIVEN' IN LOGICAL POSITIVISM
7.3. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM'S CONTINUATION OF
'KNOWLEDGE AS MEDIATED', AND THE LINK TO
KANT
7.3.1. The worst argument in the world: social
constructionism's 'Gem'
7.4. CONCLUSION
8. CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS
1. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AS A METATHEORY OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
1.1. A POST-MODERNIST PROGRAM
1.2. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
1.3. POTTER'S DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
1.4. SHOTTER'S CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS
1.5. GERGEN'S METATHEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
1.6. UNFOLDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
LANGUAGE AND REALITY
1.6.1. Psychology's theories are not derived from observation
(A1)
1.6.2. Psychology's theories do not depict, map, mirror,
contain, convey, picture, reflect, store or represent
reality (A2)
1.6.3. Psychological phenomena are not discourse-
independent (A3)
1.6.4. Summary
1.7. GERGEN'S RATIONALE FOR PROPOSITIONS A1, A2
AND A3
1.7.1. A theory of meaning involving external reference is
implausible
1.7.2. The meanings of psychology's theoretical terms
areindeterminate
1.7.3. Meaning is contextually dependent
1.7.4. Meaning has social origins within situations
1.8. CONCLUSION
2. RELATIVISM AND SELF-REFUTATION
2.1. INTRODUCTION
2.2. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHARGE OF RELATIVISM
2.3. RELATIVISM DEFINED
2.4. EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.4.1. Epistemological relativism1
2.4.2. Epistemological relativism2
2.5. ONTOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.6. CONCEPTUAL RELATIVISM
2.7. SELF-REFUTATION
2.7.1. The classical refutation of relativism
2.7.2. Mackie's analysis of self-refutation
2.7.3. Ascribing self-refutation to social constructionism
2.8. CONCLUSION
3. NON-FACTUALISM
3.1. INTRODUCTION
3.2. RE-STATING GERGEN'S POSITION
3.3. NON-FACTUALISM DEFINED
3.3.1. The Fregean approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.2. The non-factualist approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.3. Gergen's universal generalisation
3.4. AUSTIN'S CONSTATIVE-PERFORMATIVE
DISTINCTION
3.4.1. The explicit performative formula
3.4.2. A theory of speech acts
3.5. GERGEN'S ALTERNATIVE TO EXTERNAL
REFERENCE AND TO THE RECEIVED
VIEW OF ASSERTION
3.5.1. The appropriation of Austin's theory
3.5.2.Gergen's example of the performative function of words
3.6. DO ALL SPEECH-ACTS EXPRESS STATES OF
AFFAIRS?
3.7. CONCLUSION
4. THE RECEIVED VIEW OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
4.1. INTRODUCTION
4.2. TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTNESS: POSITIVISM,
LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
4.3. THE FAILURE OF POSITIVISM AS A METATHEORY
FOR PSYCHOLOGY
4.4. THE RECEIVED VIEW
4.5. CONCLUSION
5. CONVENTIONALISM
5.1. INTRODUCTION
5.2. CONVENTIONALISM'S INTELLECTUAL ANCESTRY
5.2.1. The context: Kant and J. S. Mill
5.2.2. The emergence of conventionalism:
Hilbert's investigation of Euclidean geometry
5.2.3. Poincaré's theory of the status of geometrical axioms
5.2.4. Poincaré's application of conventionalism to
scientific principles
5.2.5. Concluding remarks
5.3. THE CONVENTIONALISM OF THE LOGICAL
POSITIVISTS
5.3.1. Schlick
5.3.2. Reichenbach
5.3.3. Carnap
5.3.4. Summary
5.4. FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTIONISM VIA KUHN'S ACCOUNT OF
SCIENCE
5.5. CONVENTIONALISM IN GERGEN'S METATHEORY
5.5.1. Psychological theories as conventions
5.5.2. Logic as conventions of discourse
5.6. THE INCOHERENCE OF CONVENTIONALISM
5.6.1. The condition of consistency rests on an empirical
claim
5.6.2. Conventionalism and the fallacy of constitutive
relations
5.6.3. Conventionalism involves dualism
5.6.4. Linguistic conventions are no substitute for logic
5.7. CONCLUSION
6. MEANING AS USE
6.1. INTRODUCTION
6.2. WITTGENSTEIN'S IDENTIFICATION OF
MEANING WITH USE
6.3. SCHLICK'S ADOPTION OF WITTGENSTEIN'S
CRITERION
6.3.1. The principle of verification: early position -
meaning is linked to states of affairs
6.3.2. The principle of verification: middle position -
meaning is sometimes identified with use
6.3.3. The principle of verification: meaning is identified
with use
6.3.4. The connection with operationism
6.3.5. Concluding remarks
6.4. THE CONSTRUCTIONISTS' ADOPTION OF
WITTGENSTEIN'S CRITERION
6.4.1. The contextual dependency of meaning
6.4.2. The similarities with Schlick's appropriation
6.4.3. Social constructionism and operationism
6.4.4. Reconsideration of the received view
6.5. CRITICAL COMMENTS
6.5.1. The incomplete characterisation of meaning
6.5.2. Wittgenstein's examination of the concept 'game'
6.5.3. A disregard for the general
6.6. CONCLUSION
7. PHENOMENALISM AND ITS ANALOGUE
7.1. INTRODUCTION
7.2. THE PHENOMENAL 'GIVEN' IN LOGICAL POSITIVISM
7.3. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM'S CONTINUATION OF
'KNOWLEDGE AS MEDIATED', AND THE LINK TO
KANT
7.3.1. The worst argument in the world: social
constructionism's 'Gem'
7.4. CONCLUSION
8. CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
1.1. A POST-MODERNIST PROGRAM
1.2. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
1.3. POTTER'S DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
1.4. SHOTTER'S CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS
1.5. GERGEN'S METATHEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
1.6. UNFOLDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
LANGUAGE AND REALITY
1.6.1. Psychology's theories are not derived from observation
(A1)
1.6.2. Psychology's theories do not depict, map, mirror,
contain, convey, picture, reflect, store or represent
reality (A2)
1.6.3. Psychological phenomena are not discourse-
independent (A3)
1.6.4. Summary
1.7. GERGEN'S RATIONALE FOR PROPOSITIONS A1, A2
AND A3
1.7.1. A theory of meaning involving external reference is
implausible
1.7.2. The meanings of psychology's theoretical terms
areindeterminate
1.7.3. Meaning is contextually dependent
1.7.4. Meaning has social origins within situations
1.8. CONCLUSION
2. RELATIVISM AND SELF-REFUTATION
2.1. INTRODUCTION
2.2. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHARGE OF RELATIVISM
2.3. RELATIVISM DEFINED
2.4. EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.4.1. Epistemological relativism1
2.4.2. Epistemological relativism2
2.5. ONTOLOGICAL RELATIVISM
2.6. CONCEPTUAL RELATIVISM
2.7. SELF-REFUTATION
2.7.1. The classical refutation of relativism
2.7.2. Mackie's analysis of self-refutation
2.7.3. Ascribing self-refutation to social constructionism
2.8. CONCLUSION
3. NON-FACTUALISM
3.1. INTRODUCTION
3.2. RE-STATING GERGEN'S POSITION
3.3. NON-FACTUALISM DEFINED
3.3.1. The Fregean approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.2. The non-factualist approach to assertoric and
non-assertoric discourse
3.3.3. Gergen's universal generalisation
3.4. AUSTIN'S CONSTATIVE-PERFORMATIVE
DISTINCTION
3.4.1. The explicit performative formula
3.4.2. A theory of speech acts
3.5. GERGEN'S ALTERNATIVE TO EXTERNAL
REFERENCE AND TO THE RECEIVED
VIEW OF ASSERTION
3.5.1. The appropriation of Austin's theory
3.5.2.Gergen's example of the performative function of words
3.6. DO ALL SPEECH-ACTS EXPRESS STATES OF
AFFAIRS?
3.7. CONCLUSION
4. THE RECEIVED VIEW OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
4.1. INTRODUCTION
4.2. TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTNESS: POSITIVISM,
LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
4.3. THE FAILURE OF POSITIVISM AS A METATHEORY
FOR PSYCHOLOGY
4.4. THE RECEIVED VIEW
4.5. CONCLUSION
5. CONVENTIONALISM
5.1. INTRODUCTION
5.2. CONVENTIONALISM'S INTELLECTUAL ANCESTRY
5.2.1. The context: Kant and J. S. Mill
5.2.2. The emergence of conventionalism:
Hilbert's investigation of Euclidean geometry
5.2.3. Poincaré's theory of the status of geometrical axioms
5.2.4. Poincaré's application of conventionalism to
scientific principles
5.2.5. Concluding remarks
5.3. THE CONVENTIONALISM OF THE LOGICAL
POSITIVISTS
5.3.1. Schlick
5.3.2. Reichenbach
5.3.3. Carnap
5.3.4. Summary
5.4. FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTIONISM VIA KUHN'S ACCOUNT OF
SCIENCE
5.5. CONVENTIONALISM IN GERGEN'S METATHEORY
5.5.1. Psychological theories as conventions
5.5.2. Logic as conventions of discourse
5.6. THE INCOHERENCE OF CONVENTIONALISM
5.6.1. The condition of consistency rests on an empirical
claim
5.6.2. Conventionalism and the fallacy of constitutive
relations
5.6.3. Conventionalism involves dualism
5.6.4. Linguistic conventions are no substitute for logic
5.7. CONCLUSION
6. MEANING AS USE
6.1. INTRODUCTION
6.2. WITTGENSTEIN'S IDENTIFICATION OF
MEANING WITH USE
6.3. SCHLICK'S ADOPTION OF WITTGENSTEIN'S
CRITERION
6.3.1. The principle of verification: early position -
meaning is linked to states of affairs
6.3.2. The principle of verification: middle position -
meaning is sometimes identified with use
6.3.3. The principle of verification: meaning is identified
with use
6.3.4. The connection with operationism
6.3.5. Concluding remarks
6.4. THE CONSTRUCTIONISTS' ADOPTION OF
WITTGENSTEIN'S CRITERION
6.4.1. The contextual dependency of meaning
6.4.2. The similarities with Schlick's appropriation
6.4.3. Social constructionism and operationism
6.4.4. Reconsideration of the received view
6.5. CRITICAL COMMENTS
6.5.1. The incomplete characterisation of meaning
6.5.2. Wittgenstein's examination of the concept 'game'
6.5.3. A disregard for the general
6.6. CONCLUSION
7. PHENOMENALISM AND ITS ANALOGUE
7.1. INTRODUCTION
7.2. THE PHENOMENAL 'GIVEN' IN LOGICAL POSITIVISM
7.3. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM'S CONTINUATION OF
'KNOWLEDGE AS MEDIATED', AND THE LINK TO
KANT
7.3.1. The worst argument in the world: social
constructionism's 'Gem'
7.4. CONCLUSION
8. CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS