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Volume 3, Number 2
15 March 2008

Target on Constructivism and Society

Cover Art: Untitled (stacked)
© Anne Seidman 2004, 19 x 8 inches, waterbased paint on rag, mounted on wood, with kind permission of the artist

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Table of Contents

Who Conceives of Society?

Ernst von Glasersfeld

Abstract · PDF Version (657 kB)

How Radical Is Radical Constructivism?

Arne Kjellman

Abstract · PDF Version (64 kB)

Operative Fictions, or: How to Talk About Society

Siegfried J. Schmidt

Abstract · PDF Version (65 kB)

The Illusion of Society

Marco C. Bettoni

Abstract · PDF Version (58 kB)

Who Conceives of the Individual?

Jean-Louis Le Moigne

Abstract · PDF Version (72 kB)

Skeptical Mathematics?

Reuben Hersh

Abstract · PDF Version (50 kB)

Put Another Way…

Dewey Dykstra Jr.

Abstract · PDF Version (58 kB)

“Mathematical” Schemes as Instruments of Interaction

Leslie P. Steffe

Abstract · PDF Version (71 kB)

“Things That Go Bump in the Night”

Vincent Kenny

Abstract · PDF Version (57 kB)

The Missing Links of Radical Constructivism

Karl H. Müller

Abstract · PDF Version (90 kB)

Why Private Meanings Are Incoherent

Peter Meyer

Abstract · PDF Version (66 kB)

Is Ontology Necessary?

Andreas Quale

Abstract · PDF Version (60 kB)

The Personal and Social as Mutually Specifying

Jonathan D. Raskin

Abstract · PDF Version (58 kB)

On the Viability of Being a “Self-Orienting Subject”

Leon R. Tsvasman

Abstract · PDF Version (67 kB)

Does Brain Science Render Constructivism Superfluous?

Niels Birbaumer

Abstract · PDF Version (59 kB)

Intentions and Mirror Neurons: From the Individual to Overall Social Reality

Martin V. Butz

Abstract · PDF Version (66 kB)

A Mind of Many

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Abstract · PDF Version (66 kB)

Towards a Radically Social Constructivism

Klaus Krippendorff

Abstract · PDF Version (73 kB)

Society, Social Construction, and the Sociological Imagination

Sal Restivo

Abstract · PDF Version (65 kB)

Obey Society, and Note Your Resistance

Dirk Baecker

Abstract · PDF Version (50 kB)

Sociology, Dynamic Critical Realism, and Radical Constructivism

Christian Fuchs

Abstract · PDF Version (116 kB)

Who Conceives of Mind? Von Glasersfeld’s Turn to Society

Kenneth Gergen

Abstract · PDF Version (63 kB)

The Biological Foundations of Virtual Realities and Their Implications for Human Existence

Humberto R. Maturana

Abstract · PDF Version (99 kB)

Sowing Seeds: Heinz von Foerster’s Second Order Cybernetics and Complexity. Review of: Evelyne Andreewsky & Robert Delorme (eds.) (2006) Seconde cybernétique et complexité: Rencontres avec Heinz von Foerster. L’Harmattan: Paris

Frédéric Erpicum

Abstract · PDF Version (63 kB)

Disclosing Autopoeitic Subjectivity: Tracing a Path from Life to Consciousness. Review of: Evan Thompson (2007) Mind in life. Phenomenology, and the sciences of mind. Harvard University Press: Cambridge

Kevin McGee

Abstract · PDF Version (51 kB)