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