From Being to Doing by Humberto R. Maturana and Bernhard Pörksen.

This is the English version of their 2002 book “Vom Sein zum Tun”. It provides a detailled personal history of Maturana’s Biology of Cognition.

Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition by Heinz von Foerster, published by Springer-Verlag 2003.

In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge..

Konstruktivismus und Pädagogik by Holger Lindemann.

“Lindemann’s book is a competent and very valuable introduction to the ideas of constructivism and their application to pedagogy.” (Ernst von Glasersfeld)

Seconde cybernétique et complexité. Rencontres avec Heinz von Foerster edited by Evelyne Andreewsky & Robert Delorme, published by Editions l’Harmattan 2006.

contains papers from the conference “De la Cybernétique aux Systèmes Complexes. Un hommage à Heinz von Foerster”, Paris 2004, and original papers from Heinz von Foerster