O pragmatismo é apresentado como uma atitude anti-representacionista, isto é, como uma crítica à idéia de fundamentação do conhecimento ou da verdade. Esta crítica torna-se possível a partir de uma interpretação funcional para o problema do conhecimento, segundo a qual…

Based on the notion of language-game, as formulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the relation ship between language, individual practice, belief and knowledge is examined. Knowing is identified as context-adjusted behavior, under learning or extended exercise, while beliefs are considered as dispositional…

This paper critically analyzes the cognitive-map concept in terms oh) its subjectivity, as seen in the characterization of environmental knowledge as “images” of the world; b) its use of the information-processing approach in modeling environmental perception; c) its restricted representation…

Based on the theoretical work of Ribes and López (1985) and on Ribes' formulations about intelligent behavior (Ribes, 1981, 1990), the categories of didactic discourse that facilitate its development, are described. These are: a) a varied drill with feedback by…

The last work published by Watson as an academic is dated 1920. It deals with the conditioning of fear in a young child, little Albert. Starting with that single case experiment, the present paper is based on Watson's publications after…

Scientific research, as equivalent to methodology of science, has been traditionally approached from different viewpoints as those provided by formal logic, sociological and historical analyses, ethnographic description, and psychological interpretations. A model based upon Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of language-game is…

In the present work, I describe my own version of selectionism as a founding philosophy for attempts to synthesize the biological and the psychological, Selectionism constitutes a metanarrative that is conventionalist (for it rejects an essentialist theory of definition), experimentalist…

El movimiento local o desplazamiento ha sido uno de los conceptos que ha representado, en términos muy generales, el centro de interés de todos los científicos que trabajan en el ámbito de la educación física y el deporte. En este…