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    Authors’ Response: Toward a Pluralistic and Dialogic Constructivism
    with José Antonio Castorina
    Constructivist Foundations 13 (2): 212-218. 2018.
    Upshot: Furthering the commentators’ input, we seek to clarify the reasons that fueled some of our decisions when constructing the analytical framework introduced in the target article. We reassert our case of pursuing a pluralistic and dialogic constructivism. In particular we discuss the proposal of axes and tensions, such as knowledge/reality and individual/society. Finally, we discuss some of the alternative proposals suggested by the commentators, which are mainly based on what the construc…Read more
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    Connecting Second-Order Cybernetics’ Revolution with Genetic Epistemology
    Constructivist Foundations 11 (3): 468-470. 2016.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Second-Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science” by Stuart A. Umpleby. Upshot: Connecting Umpleby’s article with Piaget and García’s genetic epistemology, I will argue that the revolution the former discerns is more comprehensive. Additionally, since the latter differ from cybernetic and radical traditions in their philosophical assumptions about society and its conditioning on knowledge, I will suggest that these assumptions must be considere…Read more
  • The concept of epistemic frame : variety of applications and challenges
    with José Antonio Castorina
    In José Antonio Castorina & Alicia Barreiro (eds.), The development of social knowledge: towards a cultural-individual dialectic, Iap, Information Age Publishing. 2023.
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    Hacia un análisis de los marcos epistémicos del big data
    with José Antonio Castorina
    Cinta de Moebio 76 50-63. 2023.
    ResumenEn este trabajo queremos indagar sobre algunas cuestiones epistemológicas que se discuten en torno al fenómeno del big data. Como principal herramienta de análisis epistemológico utilizamos a la noción de Marco Epistémico formulada por Piaget y García, y revisada por nosotros en trabajos más recientes, para problematizar los condicionamientos de los valores éticos y políticos, así como de otras regulaciones, en el desarrollo del conocimiento científico. Para ello, proponemos ordenar los d…Read more
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    Towards a Dialogue Among Constructivist Research Programs
    with José Antonio Castorina
    Constructivist Foundations 13 (2): 191-198. 2018.
    Context: Constructivist epistemology is not a doctrinal set of clear and consistent theses and assumptions but a movement full of tensions, with minimally integrated lines of discussions. Problem: This situation explains why it is so difficult to come up with a general definition of constructivist epistemology that could serve as a starting point to study its several research programs systematically and comparatively. Method: We compare the constructivist epistemologies of Jean Piaget, Ernst von…Read more
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    Open peer commentary on the article “Subsystem Formation Driven by Double Contingency” by Bernd Porr & Paolo Di Prodi. Upshot: I acknowledge the value of Porr & Di Prodi’s piece for simulating Luhmann’s key process of subsystem formation and exploring how the concepts of “differentiation” and “binary code” relate to their model