Volume 10, Number 1
November 2014
Special Issue “Second-order Science”, edited by Alexander Riegler & Karl H. Müller
Cover Art: “Dynamic Still Il” © Ricardo Chávez-Méndez, 2009 · Original Oil on Canvas 30 x 24''
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Second-Order Science: A Vast and Largely Unexplored Science Frontier
Second-Order Science: Logic, Strategies, Methods
Do We Need a Second-Order Science?
Second-Order Science, Unity of Science and Methods of Research
Second-Order Observation in Social Science: Autopoietic Foundations
Do We also Need Second-order Mathematics?
Second-Order Science is Enacted Constructivism
The Promise and Prospects of Second-Order Science
Author’s Response: Identifying a Philosophy and Methods for Second-Order Science
Systemic-internal and Theoretical Views on Second-Order Observations
Entropy as a Resource for Double Contingency
On the Clarification of System Levels
Author’s Response: Verbal Limitations of Observer-inclusion
Second-Order Science of Interdisciplinary Research: A Polyocular Framework for Wicked Problems
Seeking Common Ground on the Nature of Interdisciplinarity
Beyond a “Levels View” of Science
Ascending to the Second-Order: An Alternative Systems Take on Wicked Problems
What is “Science”? For What Do We Need a “Polyocular Framework”?
What Kind of Autopoietic System, If Any, Can a Perspective Actually Be?
Authors’ Response: A Perspectivist View on the Perspectivist View of Interdisciplinary Science
Putting Phenomenology to Work “Seriously”- Deep Brain Stimulation and Mental Disorders
The Small Change of Non-idealistic Correlationism
Cognitive Science and Phenomenology: A Step Towards the Epistemic Ensō
Author’s Response: Of Roses, Serpents, and Circles: Fleshing out the Bones of Contention
On Climate Change Research, the Crisis of Science and Second-order Science
First Aid for Climate Research with Second-order Science
The Social and Political Context of Science
Authors’ Response: Communicating Second-Order Science
Communication and Media Studies in Crisis
Why We Need a Pragmatic View on Reality and the Media
Beyond Criticizing Objectivism: Three Pragmatic Considerations
Do the Media Fail to Represent Reality? It Depends
Authors’ Response: Pragmatism and Epistemology
Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches