The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? (Contributions to Constructivism) - Edited by Paul Watzlawick

This multidisciplinary collection explores how people construct their understanding of reality, questioning the assumption that the world is experienced exactly as it exists independently of our perceptions and beliefs. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, mathematics and systems theory, contributors examine radical constructivism, self-fulfilling prophecies, ideological beliefs, causal thinking and the relationship between observation and knowledge. Essays include work by Ernst von Glasersfeld, Heinz von Foerster, David L. Rosenhan and Francisco J. Varela, alongside Watzlawick’s own contributions. Published by W. W. Norton in 1984, this first edition contains 347 pages and includes bibliographical references and indexes.