PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

CHINESE AND EUROPEAN VIEWS

edited by
VINCENT SHEN

TRAN VAN DOAN

FRITZ WALLNER

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION  

PART I. SCIENCE AND HUMAN SUBJECTIVITY

1. The Schema-Content Dualism in Thomas Kuhn

by Wan-Chuan Fang  

2. The Magic of Consciousness: An Inquiry into the Concept of Object in Yogacara Buddhism

by Lin Chen-kuo

3. Scientific Rationality and Hermeneutic Reasonableness: Implications for Education

by Vincent Shen  

PART II. CONSTRUCTIVISM IN SCIENCE AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

4. Science, Argumentation and Organization

by Roland Fischer

5. Constructive Realism and Education in Physics

by Herbert Pietschmann  

6. Constructivism and Alienating Inter-disciplinarity: Its Educational Consequences

by Fritz Wallner  

PART III. METAPHYSICS AND SCIENCE

7. Quo Vadis Education Confuciana? -- Toward A New Understanding of Education

by Tran Van Doan  

8. Confucianism, Taoism and Constructive realism

by Vincent Shen  

9. Why Chinese Civilization Has Not Discovered Modern Sciences

by Thaddeus T'ui-chieh Hang

Acknowledgements