The Autopoiesis of Social Systems and its Criticisms

Hugo Cadenas & Marcelo Arnold-Cathalifaud

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What Is Sociology?

Humberto R. Maturana

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Towards a Consistent Constructivist General Systems Theory

Hugo Urrestarazu

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Does Social Systems Theory Need a General Theory of Autopoiesis?

Robert Drury King

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Missing: The Socio-Political Dimension

John Stewart

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Autopoiesis Applies to Social Systems Only

Milan Zeleny

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Explaining Social Systems without Humans

Peter M. Hejl

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Communication is Meaning-based Autopoiesis

Diane Laflamme

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The Concept of Autopoiesis: Its Relevance and Consequences for Sociology

Giancarlo Corsi

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Authors’ Response: On the Criticisms against the Autopoiesis of Social Systems

Hugo Cadenas & Marcelo Arnold-Cathalifaud

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Ontology, Reality and Construction in Niklas Luhmann’s Theory

Krzysztof C. Matuszek

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The Reality of Ontologies in Luhmann’s Work

Hugo Cadenas

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“So, What Do You Think About Luhmann’s Ontology?”

Thomas Mavrofides

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The Forgotten Temporal Dimension of Luhmann’s Constructivism

Raf Vanderstraeten

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Ontogenesis, or: If You Want to Study Ontology, Do not Use Ontology

Athanasios Karafillidis

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Society as Constructed Ontology?

Florian Grote

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Searching and Finding Ontology

Armin Scholl

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“Believe it or not!” - It’s About the Truth in Science (or the Unwillingness to Tolerate Ambiguities)

Heike Egner

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Author’s Response: The Epistemological Argument

Krzysztof C. Matuszek

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What Can the Global Observer Know?

Diana Gasparyan

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How We Can Get an Observer Back

Igor Gasparov

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Who Downed MH-17, or Do Collective Observations Interact Non-Linearly?

Manfred Füllsack

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Human Knowledge and “As-If” Knowledge of Ideal Observers

Konstantin Pavlov-Pinus

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Many Possible Observers Instead of the Global One

Peter Kügler

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Transcending Illusions and Illusions of Transcendence

Vincent Kenny

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Cognitive Evolution and the Idea of a Global Observer

Konrad Werner

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How to Become Omniscient in 12 Easy Steps

Peter Cariani

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Which Events is the World Made Of?

Stefano Franchi

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Author’s Response: Denying the Global Observer

Diana Gasparyan

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Mysteries of Cognition. Review of Neocybernetics and Narrative by Bruce Clarke

Dirk Baecker

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Opening a Door to Whitehead. Review of The Lure of Whitehead edited by Nicholas Gaskill and A. J. Nocek

Ronny Desmet

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Primacy of Consciousness and Enactive Imagination. Review of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation and Philosophy by Evan Thompson

Elizaveta Solomonova

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Phenomenal Consciousness, Affectivity, and Conation: Where Extended Cognition Has Never Gone Before. Review of Feeling Extended: Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind by Douglas Robinson

Eric Imbeault & P. William Hughes

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A Dynamic Expedition through the Affective Landscape. Review of The Feeling Body: Affective Science meets the Enactive Mind by Giovanna Colombetti

Mog Stapleton

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Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches

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