Constructive realism: advantages of ontology and methodology

Andrey Tcytcarev, Ruslan Bazhenov, Elena Amineva, Aleksander Pronin, B. Yazyev
2019 SHS Web of Conferences  
This article attempts to reveal and analyse the advantages of constructive realism as a methodological framework of contemporary science. Comparing realism and constructivism as two divergent positions in epistemology in their extreme forms, we mention their downsides. These are the epistemological component for extreme realism and the ontological component for radical constructivism. We indicate that the concept of our study is characterized with the best balance of ontology and gnoseology and
more » ... it allows overcoming ontological and epistemological difficulties associated with constructivism and realism correspondingly. We conclude that constructive realism may facilitate the development of the scientific worldview pertinent to modern knowledge and ready to respond the inherent methodological challenges that science faces.
doi:10.1051/shsconf/20197204009 fatcat:nsvmlwqtzrdknihe7htqgofo34