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Baecker D. (1997) Reintroducing communication into cybernetics. Systemica 11: 11–29. https://cepa.info/2930

Baecker D. (2001) Why systems?. Theory, Culture & Society 18(1): 59–74. https://cepa.info/6281

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Bettoni M. C. (2007) The Yerkish Language: From Operational Methodology to Chimpanzee Communication. Constructivist Foundations 2(2-3): 32–38. https://constructivist.info/2/2-3.32

Bissell C. C. (2011) Hermann Schmidt and German “proto-cybernetics”. Information , Communication & Society 14(1): 156–171. https://cepa.info/2921

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Bopry J. (2007) The give and take between semiotics and second-order cybernetics. Semiotica 164(1/4): 31–51. https://cepa.info/4150

Bosancic B. (2020) Information, data, and knowledge in the cognitive system of the observer. Journal of Documentation 76(4): 893–908. https://cepa.info/8061

Chavalarias D. (2016) The unlikely encounter between von Foerster and Snowden: When second-order cybernetics sheds light on societal impacts of Big Data. Big Data & Society 3(1): 1–11. https://cepa.info/3982

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Di Paolo E. A. (1997) An investigation into the evolution of communication. Adaptive Behavior 6(2): 285–324. https://cepa.info/6273

Diettrich O. (1993) Cognitive and communicative development in reality free representation. Cognitiva 5(2): 219–243. https://cepa.info/3009

Drüeke R., Klaus E. & Thiele M. (2017) Eine Genealogie des Konstruktivismus in der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung. M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 65(2): 219–235. https://cepa.info/6012

Espejo R. (2004) The footprint of complexity: The embodiment of social systems. Kybernetes 33(3/4): 671–700. https://cepa.info/6840

Fischer T. & Herr C. M. (2019) An introduction to design cybernetics. In: Fischer T. & Herr C. M. (eds.) Design cybernetics: Navigating the newSpringer, Cham: 1–23. https://cepa.info/9169

Foerster H. von (1984) Notes on an epistemology for living things. In: Foerster H. von (ed.) Observing systems. Second editionIntersystems, Salinas CA. https://cepa.info/2258

Foerster H. von (ed.) (1995) Cybernetics of cybernetics. Second edition. Future Systems Inc., Minneapolis. https://cepa.info/1774

Friston K. & Frith C. (2015) A duet for one. Consciousness and Cognition 36: 390–405. https://cepa.info/5877

Fujigaki Y. (1998) Filling the gap between discussions on science and scientists’ everyday activities: Applying the autopoiesis system theory to scientific knowledge. Social Science Information 37(1): 5–22. https://cepa.info/6301

Füllsack M. (2012) Communication Emerging? On Simulating Structural Coupling in Multiple Contingency. Constructivist Foundations 8(1): 103-110. https://constructivist.info/8/1.103

Gentzel P. (2017) Praktisches Wissen und Materialität: Herausforderungen für kritisch- konstruktivistische Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 65(2): 275–293. https://cepa.info/6015

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Glanville R. (2001) And he was magic. Kybernetes 30(5/6): 652–672. https://cepa.info/6217

Glanville R. (2003) Second-Order Cybernetics. In: Parra-Luna F. (ed.) Systems Science and Cybernetics, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, developed under the Auspices of the UNESCOEoLSS Publishers, Oxford: electronic. https://cepa.info/2326

Glasersfeld E. von & Lochhead J. (1995) La formation d’une communauté scientifique à l’age de l’électronique. In: Giordan A., Martinand J.-L. & Raichvarg D. (eds.) Que savons-nous des savoirs scienitifiques et techniques? Proceedings of the 17th international meeting on communication, education, and the scientific and industrial cultures, 1995Centre Jean Franco, Chamonix: 47–50. https://cepa.info/1466

Glasersfeld E. von & Silverman P. (1976) Man-machine understanding. Communications of the Association of Computer Machinery 19(10): 586–587. https://cepa.info/1330

Glasersfeld E. von (1974) Signs, communication, and language. Journal of Human Evolution 3: 465–474. https://cepa.info/1322

Glasersfeld E. von (1977) Comunicare con un scimpanze. In: Istituto di Psicologia CNR (ed.) Problemi attuali di psicologiaBulzoni, Rome: 145–158. https://cepa.info/1339

Glasersfeld E. von (1990) Environment and communication. In: Steffe L. P. & Wood T. (eds.) Transforming children’s mathematics education: International perspectivesLawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ: 30–38. https://cepa.info/1290

Glasersfeld E. von (1993) Warum sprechen wir, und die Schimpansen nicht? [Why do we speak, and chimpanzees do not?]. In: Hosp I. (ed.) Sprachen des Menschen, Sprache der Dinge [Languages of mankind, language of things]Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bolzano: 53–61. https://cepa.info/1444

Glasersfeld E. von (1994) Wiener’s insight into communication. Kybernetes 23(6/7): 21–22. https://cepa.info/1454

Glasersfeld E. von (1995) Conceptions et connaissances (Review of book by Giordan, Girault & Clément). Didaskalia 6: 180–181. https://cepa.info/1469

Glasersfeld E. von (1995) Radical constructivism: A way of knowing and learning. Falmer Press, London. https://cepa.info/1462

Glasersfeld E. von (1997) Wege des Wissens [Ways of knowing: Constructivist explorations of thinking]. Carl Auer, Heidelberg. https://cepa.info/1484

Glasersfeld E. von (1998) Breve risposta a Sigiani [Brief reply to Sigiani]. Methodologia Working Papers 94. https://cepa.info/1494

Glasersfeld E. von (1998) Was im Kopf eines anderen vorgeht, können wir nie wissen [We cannot know what goes on in another’s head]. Interview by B. Pörksen. Communicatio Socialis 31(4): 386–404. https://cepa.info/1499

Glasersfeld E. von (1999) How do we mean? A constructivist sketch of semantics (Special issue "Radical Constructivism in education" edited by Marie Larochelle). Cybernetics & Human Knowing 6(1): 9–16. https://cepa.info/1508

Glasersfeld E. von (2000) Streitschrift gegen die Bigotterie [Pamphlet against bigotry]. Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften 11(3): 374–375. https://cepa.info/1526

Glasersfeld E. von (2005) Informationsübertragung, Konzeptuelle Semantik, Kybernetik, Objektivität, Wissen als Konstruk, Zeitkonzept. In: Tsvasman L. R. (ed.) Das große Lexikon, Medien und KommunikationErgon, Würzburg: 145, 211, 212, 2. https://cepa.info/1557

Glasersfeld E. von (2007) The constructivist view of communication. In: Müller A. & Müller K. H. (eds.) An unfinished revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory, BCL, 1959–1976Edition Echoraum, Vienna: 351–360. https://cepa.info/1559

Glasersfeld E. von (2008) Bekanntschaft mit einer Schimpansin. Universum 5: 130–131. https://cepa.info/1563

Glasersfeld E. von (2008) Who Conceives of Society?. Constructivist Foundations 3(2): 59–64. https://constructivist.info/3/2.59

Graf H. (2012) Examining garden blogs as a communication system. International Journal of Communication 6: 2758–2779. https://cepa.info/1132

Hejl P. M. (2011) The Individual in Radical Constructivism. Some Critical Remarks from an Evolutionary Perspective. Constructivist Foundations 6(2): 227–234. https://constructivist.info/6/2.227

Hepp A., Loosen W., Hasebrink U. & Reichertz J. (2017) Konstruktivismus in der Kommunikationswissenschaft: Über die Notwendigkeit einer (erneuten) Debatte. M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 65(2): 181–206. https://cepa.info/5993

Hoffjann O. (2013) Public Relations: Between Omnipotence and Impotence. Constructivist Foundations 8(2): 227–234. https://constructivist.info/8/2.227

Hoffjann O. (2017) Die Wahrheitsspieler. Strategische Kommunikation als Spiel. In: Kanzian C., Kletzl S., Mitterer J. & Neges K. (eds.) Realism – relativism – constructivismDe Gruyter, Berlin: 59–72. https://cepa.info/5346

Karafillidis A. (2013) Comment: Socializing a Calculus: The Emergence of a Theory of Social Forms and a. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 20(3–4): 108–141. https://cepa.info/3447

Kenny V. (2014) Continuous Dialogues IV: Viability and Learning. Ernst von Glasersfeld’s Answers to a Wide Variety of Questioners on the Oikos Web Site 1997-2010. Constructivist Foundations 9(2): 283–292. https://constructivist.info/9/2.283

Klenk M. (2013) Comment: The Form of Expectation Considerations on Social Structure. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 20(3–4): 173–187. https://cepa.info/3543

Kravchenko A. (2007) Essential properties of language or why language is not a code. Language Sciences 29: 650–671. https://cepa.info/5651

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Kronsted C., Gallagher S., Tollefsen D. & Windsor L. (2023) An enactivist account of the dynamics of lying. Adaptive Behavior 32(1): 3–16. https://cepa.info/8366

Kull K. (2003) Thomas A. Sebeok and biology: Building biosemiotics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 10(1): 47–60. https://cepa.info/3224

Lenartowicz M., Weinbaum D. & Braathen P. (2016) The individuation of social systems: A cognitive framework. Procedia Computer Science 88: 15–20. https://cepa.info/4759

Luhmann N. (2001) Notes on the project “Poetry and Social Theory”. Theory, Culture & Society 18(1): 15–27. https://cepa.info/6293

Morus I. R. (2015) Science: Constructivist perspectives, history of. In: Wright J. D. (ed.) International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Second edition. Volume 21Elsevier, Amsterdam: 225–228. https://cepa.info/5869

Märtsin M. (2007) Self and other in communication and cognition: The role of auto-communication and intersubjectivity in autopoiesis of psychic systems. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 42(2): 208–211. https://cepa.info/7018

Nizami L. (2010) Interpretation of Absolute Judgments Using Information Theory. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 17(1–2): 111–155. https://cepa.info/3502

Ofner F. (2008) Action and Discourse. Some Thoughts Concerning a Non-dualizing Conception of Experience. Constructivist Foundations 3(3): 148–152. https://constructivist.info/3/3.148

Ofner F. (2013) Some Ideas towards a Non-dualism-Compatible Theory of Science. Constructivist Foundations 8(2): 166–172. https://constructivist.info/8/2.166

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Palmaru R. (2012) Making Sense and Meaning: On the Role of Communication and Culture in the Reproduction of Social Systems. Constructivist Foundations 8(1): 63-75. https://constructivist.info/8/1.63

Palmaru R. (2016) Constructivism as a Key Towards Further Understanding of Communication, Culture and Society. Constructivist Foundations 12(1): 30–38. https://constructivist.info/12/1.30

Pörksen B. (2006) Digital Distinctions: An Analytical Method for the Observation of the WWW and the Emerging Worlds of Communication. Constructivist Foundations 2(1): 17–27. https://constructivist.info/2/1.17

Pörksen B. (2010) Provocations of an Epistemology. Constructivist Foundations 6(1): 40–50. https://constructivist.info/6/1.40

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Vollmar B. H. (2013) Economic Theory: A Field for the Application of Non-dualist Thought? A Clarification of Potential Epistemic Benefits. Constructivist Foundations 8(2): 216–226. https://constructivist.info/8/2.216

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