Constructivist Foundations is an international triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on constructivist approaches to science and philosophy, including radical constructivism, enactive cognitive science, second-order cybernetics, biology of cognition and the theory of autopoietic systems, and non-dualizing philosophy. It was established in 2005 and the editor-in-chief is Alexander Riegler (Free University of Brussels).

Content

The journal publishes scholarly articles with empirical, formal or conceptual content, survey articles providing an extensive overview, target articles which are openly discussed in commentaries, opinions, and book reviews. In addition to regular issues, the journal occasionally publishes special issues.

Statistics

(as of November 2019)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, Philosopher's Index, PhilPapers, Scopus, and Education Research Complete.

History

The inaugural issue of Constructivist Foundations was presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics. Originally, the articles in CF were meant to explore mainly von Glasersfeld's radical constructivism. The scope expanded to include "constructivist approaches." "'In very general terms, constructivist approaches can be said to support the idea that mental structures such as cognition and perception are actively built by one's mind rather than passively acquired. They emphasize the primacy of the cognitive system and its organizational closure. In the understanding of constructivism, cognition is not about creating representations of a mind-independent reality but constructing reality.'"