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On Pedagogical Tactics when Applying Maturana’s Biology of Cognition

Hugo Urrestarazu

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Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “In Maturana’s Wake: The Biology of Cognition’s Legacy and its Prospects” by Randall Whitaker. Abstract: With respect to pedagogic goals, Whitaker’s work stands for itself. First, I suggest valuing Maturana’s first-person approach to social interaction analysis and further exploring his late work and experience in applying biology of cognition to practical problems in social relations. Then I criticize Whitaker’s insufficient explanation of his distinction of the “abstract (non-physical)” nature of what he calls the “novel domain” engendered by the feature of operational closure of the nervous system. I end by discussing the difficulties encountered by the author when trying to “extract” a pedagogical methodology from biology of cognition.

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Urrestarazu H. (2022) On pedagogical tactics when applying Maturana’s biology of cognition. Constructivist Foundations 18(1): 134–137. https://constructivist.info/18/1/134

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González F. (2011) Living in Parenthesis. A Layman’s Experiences of Knowing Maturana. Constructivist Foundations 6(3): 388–392. https://constructivist.info/6/3/388
Maturana H. R. (1988) Ontology of observing: The biological foundations of self-consciousness and the physical domain of existence. In: Donaldson R. E. (ed.) Texts in cybernetic theory: An in-depth exploration of the thought of Humberto Maturana, William T. Powers, and Ernst von Glasersfeld. American Society for Cybernetics (ASC. https://cepa.info/597
Maturana H. R. (1995) La realidad: ¿objetiva o construida? I: Fundamentos biológicos de la realidad. Editorial Anthropos, Barcelona / Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City/Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Mexico. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar
Urrestarazu H. (2012) Autopoietic Systems: A Generalized Explanatory Approach – Part 3: The Scale of Description Problem. Constructivist Foundations 7(3): 180–195. https://constructivist.info/7/3/180

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