Abstract

In this paper, we aim to clarify the characteristics of the constructive philosophy of information indirectly by attempting to reconstruct a brief history of the concept of “subject” from the perspective of constructivist information philosophy and to evaluate its components. The essence of constructivism is that all knowledge is constructive. The premise of this argument is that an empirical being in the world can construct the events that they experience from a subjective point of view and produce associated knowledge and information. On the other hand, the philosophy of information can be used to perform a meta-analysis and an explanation of the meaning of information itself and related principles and concepts. Based on this understanding, Park Choong-sik coined the concept of constructive philosophy of information (2018) and defined it as the philosophy of information considered from a constructivist perspective. According to this theory, self-productive information-processing systems comprise a functional computational model that constructs information to sustain its existence in the environment. From this point of view, the concept of a “subject” is also a philosophical construct. From the perspective of the constructive philosophy of information, we provide a brief history of the concept “subject” from Descartes to Luhmann and evaluate the theories constituting each scene.