Volume 9, Number 2
March 2014
Cover Art: “Lost Edge 28” © Dimitri Kozyrev, 2010, acrylic paint on canvas, 48 x 46”, courtesy of the artist, and Mark Moore Gallery
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When Theoretical Frameworks Collide
Can Inter-human Communications be Modeled as “Autopoietic”?
How Can a Social System Be Autopoietic?
Against a Reductive Materialism of the Social
Autopoiesis and Autonomy in the Space of Meaning
Social Systems: Unearthing the Big Picture
The Autopoiesis of Social Systems
Communication, Autopoiesis and Semiosis
Author’s Response: From Humans to Human Social Systems
Subsystem Formation Driven by Double Contingency
Learning by Experiencing versus Learning by Registering
Aligning Homeostatic and Heterostatic Perspectives
The Relevance of “Differentiation” and “Binary Code” for Simulating Luhmann
Info-computational Constructivism and Cognition
IC and the Observed/Observer Duality
A Mathematical Model for Info-computationalism
Information, Computation and Mind: Who Is in Charge of the Construction?
Info-computationalism or Materialism? Neither and Both
Info-computational Constructivism and Quantum Field Theory
On the Emergence of Meaningful Information and Computing in Biology
Author’s Response: Why We Need Info-computational Constructivism
Ethics: A Radical-constructivist Approach
Constructing Models of Ethical Knowledge: A Scientific Enterprise
Can a “Generic” Subject Produce an Ethical Stance through Its Own Cognitive Operations?
Radical Constructivism Is Neutral
When Sharp Distinctions Fail to Be Useful
Constructivists Should Drop the Claim of Ethical Responsibility
Some Questions about Responsibility
Author’s Response: Ethics: A Non-cognitive Dimension in Radical-constructivist Epistemology
Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches