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Table of Contents

Who Conceives of Society?

Ernst von Glasersfeld

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How Radical Is Radical Constructivism?

Arne Kjellman

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Operative Fictions, or: How to Talk About Society

Siegfried J. Schmidt

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The Illusion of Society

Marco C. Bettoni

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Who Conceives of the Individual?

Jean-Louis Le Moigne

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Skeptical Mathematics?

Reuben Hersh

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Put Another Way…

Dewey Dykstra Jr.

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“Mathematical” Schemes as Instruments of Interaction

Leslie P. Steffe

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“Things That Go Bump in the Night”

Vincent Kenny

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The Missing Links of Radical Constructivism

Karl H. Müller

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Why Private Meanings Are Incoherent

Peter Meyer

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Is Ontology Necessary?

Andreas Quale

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The Personal and Social as Mutually Specifying

Jonathan D. Raskin

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

Leon R. Tsvasman

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Does Brain Science Render Constructivism Superfluous?

Niels Birbaumer

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

Martin V. Butz

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A Mind of Many

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

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Towards a Radically Social Constructivism

Klaus Krippendorff

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Society, Social Construction, and the Sociological Imagination

Sal Restivo

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Obey Society, and Note Your Resistance

Dirk Baecker

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Sociology, Dynamic Critical Realism, and Radical Constructivism

Christian Fuchs

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

Kenneth Gergen

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

Humberto R. Maturana

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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

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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

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