Generative Constructivism
The relationship between understanding and transformation is puzzling. Sometimes insight shifts everything. Other times we can articulate a pattern perfectly and remain stuck. The mechanisms proposed to explain change—insight, willpower, belief modification—don’t reliably account for how change actually occurs, which suggests that something more fundamental in our usual conceptual architecture may be obscuring the view.
Generative Constructivism is an emergent philosophical framework that addresses this gap. It proposes that self and behaviour, frame and reality, might form co-arising recursive systems rather than the directional causal sequences that many philosophical frameworks implicitly assume—and that these processes are self-organising, requiring no anterior subject to initiate them.
This talk will explore the framework’s core moves and the philosophical questions it raises about the entanglement of knowing, doing, and becoming.