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    10. Zu Sophokles Aias
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 14 (1-4): 188-190. 1859.
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    XXX. Herodots Vorlesungen
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 10 (1-4): 410-431. 1855.
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    XII. Die überarbeitung des sophokleischen Oedipus auf Kolonos, nachgewiesen an den Widersprüchen in allen handlungsmotiven
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 26 (1-4): 577-605. 1867.
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    VII. Leber Herodots lebenszeit
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 9 (1-4): 193-212. 1854.
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    II. Herodots entwicklung zu seinem beruf
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 10 (1-4): 25-81. 1855.
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    29. Chor der mysten in Aristoph. Ran. 324
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 15 (1-3): 362-366. 1860.
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    19. Chor der frösche in Arist. Ran. 208 sq
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 12 (1-4): 382-384. 1857.
  • 2. An den herausgeber
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 10 (1-4): 181-186. 1855.
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    Legally protecting fetuses
    Public Affairs Quarterly 11 (2): 141. 1997.
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    When Sharp Distinctions Fail to Be Useful
    Constructivist Foundations 9 (2): 273-274. 2014.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Ethics: A Radical-constructivist Approach” by Andreas Quale. Upshot: The sharp distinction between cognitive and non-cognitive knowledge provided by Andreas Quale prevents the author from finding well-founded reasons for constructivist ethics
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    Open peer commentary on the target article “From Objects to Processes: A Proposal to Rewrite Radical Constructivism” by Siegfried J. Schmidt > Upshot: Radical Constructivism should be strictly process-oriented to avoid hidden ontology. S. J. Schmidt provides such a strict process-orientation from a very philosophical viewpoint that, however, still lacks access to empirical research. The purpose of this commentary is to show a way to apply Schmidt’s philosophical framework to empirical researchRead more
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    Non-dualizing Philosophy and Empirical Research
    Constructivist Foundations 3 (3): 172-180. 2008.
    Purpose: Explaining the relationship between theory and empirical research within the research process. The main motivation is to show that non-dualizing epistemology and constructivism have approximately the same ideas to explain this relationship. Problem: Josef Mitterer criticizes constructivism as a dualizing epistemology and "overlooks" that non-dualizing philosophy and constructivist perspectives are similar with regard to the relationship between theory and empirical research. Method: (1)…Read more
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    Author's Response: What Constructivism Does not Say
    Constructivist Foundations 8 (1): 15-18. 2012.
    Upshot: Egner’s suggestion that a theory of observation should be developed towards a more abstract concept in order to apply it to any autopoietic system is plausible from the point of a general systems theory. However, this strategy of theorizing is not suited to solving epistemological problems in particular because such a broad concept fails to specify constructivism as a strictly observer-related philosophy. Nassehi’s search for a third way between constructivism and realism, in turn, presu…Read more
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    Problem: First-order scientific research is often not aware of the hidden assumptions provided by an epistemological perspective based upon realism. Beyond philosophical considerations about the epistemological foundations, some practical normative implications deriving from them are crucial: in the field of communication and media studies, some scholars criticize media coverage, e.g., on climate change, as biased and distorted from reality. Method: From a constructivist perspective, the article…Read more
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    Upshot: Poerksen’s discursive constructivism reconstructs radical constructivist foundations and applies them to several subjects of research in the field of journalism and media studies. The author combines epistemological arguments with practical advice for journalists, which makes the book not only valuable for interested followers of RC in general but also for communication scientists and media practitioners
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    Searching and Finding Ontology
    Constructivist Foundations 10 (2): 218-221. 2015.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Ontology, Reality and Construction in Niklas Luhmann’s Theory” by Krzysztof C. Matuszek. Upshot: Matuszek’s article criticizes Luhmann’s systems theory in particular and constructivism in general with respect to philosophical inconsistency caused by some ontological implications of constructivist epistemology. Providing a coherent interpretation of ontology and epistemology is worth the effort in order to solve philosophical problems. However, the question ar…Read more
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    Problem: Is Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems based on a constructivist or on a realist epistemology? Luhmann’s own elaborations seem to oscillate between both standpoints. Method: The argumentation provided in this article starts with a detailed reconstruction of Luhmann’s epistemology and of Luhmann’s criticism towards radical constructivism and then examines the consequences for a comparison of systems theory and (radical) constructivism. Results: Although Luhmann’s operative construc…Read more
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    Upshot: Sutter’s interactionist constructivism claims to remedy the shortcomings of radical constructivism. The author integrates radical constructivist ideas, the theory of social systems, the theory of social constitution, and developmental psychological approaches in order to understand and explain processes of individual socialization. Although this effort is ambitious and works very well in a pragmatic sense, it lacks a meta-theory for integrating theories. Moreover, the mutual criticism of…Read more
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    The Micro-Macro-Problem in Constructivism
    Constructivist Foundations 12 (1): 47-48. 2016.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Constructivism as a Key Towards Further Understanding of Communication, Culture and Society” by Raivo Palmaru. Upshot: Palmaru addresses several problems with respect to radical constructivism, in particular the relationship between the micro-level and macro-level of social phenomena, i.e., communication, culture, and society. Related to this, I dispute three of Palmaru’s key claims: the relationship between micro-social and macro-social phenomena is a specif…Read more
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    Upshot: New publications about Niklas Luhmann and his theory of social systems address the question of Luhmann’s epistemological standpoints. A publication on the “ontologies of the modern world” hastily describes social conventions and processes of stabilization as modern ontologies and a new handbook on Luhmann’s life, oeuvre and impact underestimates the major contribution of constructivism in Luhmann’s theory. Although the two books are comprehensive and informative, they do not make enough …Read more