Abstract
Open peer commentary on the article “The Maturanian Turn: Good Prospects for the Language Sciences” by Alexander V. Kravchenko. Abstract: I pose three general questions to the target article: (a) How radical should the explanatory models of the prospective Maturanian turn be? To address this, I propose a recurrential, narrative approach focused on observing the history of meaning grounding of an agent and then explaining such history by creating a story. (b) Should this turn also avoid human exceptionalism and, instead, understand language as part of a bigger systemic structure of agents’ ways of sense-making and action? (c) What is the place of the latter theories of education proposed by Maturana, particularly the concept of emotioning, in the prospective turn?
Citation
Rodríguez Gómez S. (2022) Stories explaining meaning. Constructivist Foundations 18(1): 059–063. https://constructivist.info/18/1/059
Export article citation data:
Plain Text ·
BibTex ·
EndNote ·
Reference Manager (RIS)
References
Aragão R. (2011) Beliefs and emotions in foreign language learning. System 39(3): 302–313.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Brown T., Mann B., Ryder N., Subbiah M., Kaplan J. D., Dhariwal P., Neelakantan A., Shyam P., Sastry G., Askell A., Agarwal S., Herbert-Voss A., Krueger G., Henighan T., Child R., Ramesh A., Ziegler D., Wu J., Winter C., Hesse C., Chen M., Sigler E., Litwin M., Gray S., Chess B., Clark J., Berner C., McCandlish S., Radford A., Sutskever I. & Amodei D. (2020) Language models are few-shot learners. In: Larochelle H., Ranzato M., Hadsell R., Balcan M. F. & Lin H. (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020) Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation Inc, La Jolla CA: 1877–1901.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Fauconnier G. & Mark T. (2003) The way we think: Conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities. Basic Books, New York.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Jaroš F. & Maran T. (2019) Humans on top, humans among the other animals: Narratives of anthropological difference. Biosemiotics 12(3): 381–403.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Johnson M. (2009) The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Maturana H. R. & Bloch A. S. (1996) Biología del emocionar y alba emoting: Respiración y emoción, bailando juntos [Biology of emotion and alba emoting: Breathing and emotion]. Dolmen, Santiago.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Maturana H. R. & Varela F. J. (2003) El árbol del conocimiento: Las bases biológicas del conocimiento humano. Lumen, Buenos Aires. Originally published in 1984. English translation: Maturana H. R. & Varela F. J. (1987) The tree of knowledge: The biological roots of human understanding. Shambhala, Boston.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Maturana H. R. & Verden-Zöller G. (1993) Amor y juego: Fundamentos olvidados de lo humano. Desde el patriarcado a la democracia [Love and play: Forgotten foundations of the human. From the patriarchy to democracy]. Editorial Instituto de Terapia Cognitiva, Santiago.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Maturana H. R. (1991) El sentido de lo humano [The meaning of the human]. In collaboration with Sima Nisis de Razepka. Granica, Buenos Aires. Dolmen, Santiago.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Peirce C. S. (1960) Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Rodríguez Gómez S. (2021) Organización, experiencia y adaptación: Tres conexiones biosemióticas entre el pensamiento de von Uexküll y la biología enactiva de Maturana y Varela [Organization, experience and adaptation. Three biosemiotic connections between von Uexküll’s thought and Maturana and Varela’s enactive biology]. Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de La Ciencia 21(43): 389–404.
https://cepa.info/8157
Rodríguez S. (2016) Recurrences and human agential meaning grounding: Laying a path in walking. Biosemiotics 9(2): 169–184.
https://cepa.info/8112
Comments: 0
To stay informed about comments to this publication and post comments yourself, please log in first.
