ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the philosophical implications of reconstructionism. Reconstructionism is a stance that entails the notion of emergent property as a mental and physical property. Emergent property describes the mental and physical property of the mind that arises from the interactivity of parts of the organized system. Cultural patterns of thought as emergent property describe knowledge generation from the mind in interaction with the world. Cultural mental content as emergent phenomena consists of the parts of the organized system.