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