Volume 10, Number 2
March 2015
Cover Art: “Fractured Solace” © Jeane Myers, 2014 · mixed media 40x30
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The Autopoiesis of Social Systems and its Criticisms
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Towards a Consistent Constructivist General Systems Theory
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Does Social Systems Theory Need a General Theory of Autopoiesis?
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Missing: The Socio-Political Dimension
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Autopoiesis Applies to Social Systems Only
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Explaining Social Systems without Humans
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Communication is Meaning-based Autopoiesis
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The Concept of Autopoiesis: Its Relevance and Consequences for Sociology
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Authors’ Response: On the Criticisms against the Autopoiesis of Social Systems
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Ontology, Reality and Construction in Niklas Luhmann’s Theory
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The Reality of Ontologies in Luhmann’s Work
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“So, What Do You Think About Luhmann’s Ontology?”
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The Forgotten Temporal Dimension of Luhmann’s Constructivism
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Ontogenesis, or: If You Want to Study Ontology, Do not Use Ontology
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Society as Constructed Ontology?
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Searching and Finding Ontology
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Author’s Response: The Epistemological Argument
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What Can the Global Observer Know?
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How We Can Get an Observer Back
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Who Downed MH-17, or Do Collective Observations Interact Non-Linearly?
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Human Knowledge and “As-If” Knowledge of Ideal Observers
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Many Possible Observers Instead of the Global One
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Transcending Illusions and Illusions of Transcendence
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Cognitive Evolution and the Idea of a Global Observer
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How to Become Omniscient in 12 Easy Steps
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Which Events is the World Made Of?
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Author’s Response: Denying the Global Observer
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Mysteries of Cognition. Review of Neocybernetics and Narrative by Bruce Clarke
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Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches
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