Constructivist Machine Learning

While neuro-inspired and symbolic artficial intelligence have for a long time been considered ideal complements, approaches to hybridize these concepts often lack an unifying grand theory. The way the philosophical concept of constructivism has been adapted for eductional purposes, however, provides a fruitful source of inspiration for this purpose. To this end, we have developed a framework termed Constructivist Machine Learning, which applies constructivist learning principles and exploits metadata on the grounds of Stachowiak's General Model Theory in order to bridge the gap between neuro-spired and symbolic approaches. In this chapter, we summarize our previous work in order to introduce the reader to the most important ideas and concepts.