Volume 13, Number 1
November 2017
Special Issue “Missing the Woods for the Trees: Neglected Aspects of Francisco Varela’s Work”, edited by Alexander Riegler & Sebastjan Vörös
Cover Art: Standing Room Only © Mandy Budan 2012 · 61 × 76 cm, acrylic on wood panel
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A Plea for not Watering Down the Unseemly: Reconsidering Francisco Varela’s Contribution to Science
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Mathematical Work of Francisco Varela
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Monologic versus Dialogic Distinctions of Selves
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Laws of Form and Paraconsistent Logic
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Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift by Developing that Paradigm Shift
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Author’s Response: Self-Reference and the Self
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Enacting Enaction: A Dialectic Between Knowing and Being
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“Dialectical Dance” and “Dialectical Star”: What Exactly Are We Talking About?
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Enacting Science: Extending Enaction Beyond the Content of a Theory
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The Elusive Blueprint for Building Bridges
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Authors’ Response: Not Hagiography but Ideational Biography: In Defense of Existential Enaction
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Varela’s Radical Proposal: How to Embody and Open Up Cognitive Science
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Loud Crisis, Quiet Crisis: Varela’s Proposal Resonates in Contemporary Psychological Science
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Embodiment, Knowledge-Generation and Disciplinary Identity
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The Perils of “Open Science”: How Radical and How Many?
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The Reflective Science of Ethnography and Its Role in Pragmatic Design
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On Embodying Decision-Making and the Endless Circularity of Understanding the Mind
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Varela on the Pragmatic Dimension of Phenomenology
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On the Second-Person Method: Considering the Diversity and Modes of Subjects’s Descriptions
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Author’s Response: Degrees of Openness, Embodiment, Circularity, and Invariance
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The Past, Present and Future of Time-Consciousness: From Husserl to Varela and Beyond
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Protention and Predictive Processing: The Wave of the Future
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Some Shortcomings of Naturalization
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Time As the “Acid Test” of Neurophenomenology
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Life is Intrinsically Temporal
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What Is the Exact Directional Causality Between Affect, Action and Time-Consciousness?
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The Transcendental Character of Temporality and the Buddhist Contribution to Time-Consciousness
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Author’s Response: Internatural Relations
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Missing Colors: The Enactivist Approach to Perception
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Active Vision: A Broader Comparative Perspective Is Needed
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How to Understand Brain-Body-Environment Interactions? Toward a Systemic Representationalism
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The Lackluster Role of Misperceptions in an Enactivist Paradigm
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Function vs. Structure: The Immune System as a Case in Point
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Diseases: Loss of Inner Harmonies?
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Self and Non-Sense: The Radicality of Varela’s Contribution to Immunology
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Francisco Varela and Immune System Modeling, Closure, Cognition and Enaction
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Authors’ Response: Not Objective, Not Subjective - Something Else: Coordination of Actions
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Diachrony in Human Cognition and Problem Solving
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Co-evolution of Problem Posing and Problem‑Solving after Finding a Way In
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From (Observing) Problem Solving to (Observing) Problem Posing: Fronting the Teacher as Observer
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Francisco Varela’s Four Key Points of Enaction Applied to Working on Mathematical Problems
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Teaching Activity in the Context of Mathematical Activity
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Authors’ Response: On Posing|Solving Research
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