Second-Order Cybernetics

keywords:   radical constructivism   second order cybernetics   autopoiesis   self organizing
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• Sĝren Brier
  • Information and Consciousness: A Critique of the Mechanistic Concept of Information
• Gregory Bateson
• Fritjof Capra
  • Ecoliteracy: A Path with a Heart (Interview by Barbara Vogl)
  • Thinking Allowed (1988 lnterview by Jeffrey Mishlove)
• Davis and Sumara (1977) Cognition, Complexity, and Teacher Education (exerps)
• Güzeldere and Franchi (1995) mindless mechanisms,mindful constructions
• Humberto Maturana
  • Maturana profile (Associazione Oikos)
  • Maturana Home Page (Rob Sable)
  • Chilean School of Biology of Cognition (Alfredo Ruiz)
  • The Contributions of Humberto Maturana to the Sciences of Complexity and Psychology (Alfredo B. Ruiz)
  • Biology of Cognition: The Web Page of Humberto Maturana (Alfredo Ruiz)
  • Ontology of Observing: the biological foundations of self consciousness and the physical domain of existence (1988)
  • The Nature of Time (1995)
  • Metadesign (1997)
• Gordon Pask
• Riegler (2003) The Key to Radical Constructivism
• Francisco Varela
  • Varela Profile (John Brockman)
  • Varela, Thompson and RoschThe Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (1991)
    review by Daniel Dennett
• Heinz von Foerster
  • Foerster Obituary (John Markoff)
  • The Heinz von Foerster Page (Alex Riegler)
  • von Foerster profile (by Francisco Varela)
  • von Foerster interview (by Stefano Franchi, Güven Güzeldere, and Eric Minch , 1995)
  • Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics (Paris, 1990) mirror
• Ernst von Glasersfeld
  • Ernst von Glasersfeld home page (UMass Scientific Reasoning Research Institute)
  • Ernst von Glasersfeld home page (Ecology of Mind)
  • An Introduction to Radical Constructivism
  • Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician (1992)
  • An Exposition of Constructivism: Why Some Like it Radical (1989)
• David Reed Enactivism
• Stefan Schwiezer (2007) In History of Ideas, Constructivist Pedagogy Stems from German Idealism (pdf)

related sites

• Radical Constructivism (Alex Riegler)
• Towards an Ecology of Mind (Vincent Kenny)
• NCPG ( Nijmegen Cultural Psychology Group) Human experience and the enigma of culture: Towards an enactive account of cultural practice
• NTCS (1997) New Trends in Cognitive Science
• corollary sites that link to this page.

October 01, 2008