Following his own prescription for an affirmative and constructive philosophy, Williams worked steadily towards the development of his own distinctive position in metaphysics.
Brouwer's original proof determined the existence of a fixed point by contradiction, without actually exhibiting it (this was quite ironical, due to Brouwer's constructive philosophy).
For an attempt at developing a constructive empiricist philosophy of mathematics, see Bueno 1999.
Filtering Heidegger's ontological hermeneutics through his distinction between constructive and therapeutic philosophy, Rorty reads Being and Time as an anti-Kantian, anti-representationalist antidote to the foundationalist epistemological project of Western Philosophy.
In order to address the challenges of modernization and industrialization, China has begun to blend traditions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism with Whitehead's "constructive post-modern" philosophy in order to create an "ecological civilization".
Coll wrote that one tenet of Petraeus's command philosophy was constructive opportunism: "One of the keys with counter-insurgency is that every province is a unique case," Petraeus told me.
It is an example of both the critical and the constructive sides of feminist philosophy of biology.
It, thus, offers a starting point for a constructive interdisciplinary discourse between philosophy, medical ethics and the engineering community about whether technology-based medical treatment is a barrier to ethical behavior and a threat to stability – especially in intercultural settings.
Based on paradigmatic changes reflecting a progress away from the traditional logical positivistic approach to a constructive orientation and interpretivist philosophy, and generalizing from the multitude models of evaluation, three different orientations of curriculum evaluation have been characterized: instrumental evaluation, adaptive and situated and emergent and emancipatory.
As a constructive philosopher, Chatton was not a system-builder, but a defender of certain parts of the more systematic philosophy of John Duns Scotus, and an advocate of perspectivist accounts of cognition.
He brings to any issue in philosophy not a constructive account, but an approach, a set of convictions, something akin to ethical principles.
