Heinz von Foerster
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Aerts D. (2005) Ceci n’est pas Heinz von Foerster. Constructivist Foundations 1(1): 13–18. https://constructivist.info/1/1.13
Baecker D. (1994) The intelligence of ignorance in self-referential systems. In: Trappl R. (ed.) Cybernetics and systems: Proceedings of the Twelfth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria, 5–8 April 1994World Scientific, Singapore: 1555–1562. https://cepa.info/7609
Clarke B. (2012) From Information to Cognition: The Systems Counterculture, Heinz von Foerster’s Pedagogy, and Second-Order Cybernetics. Constructivist Foundations 7(3): 196-207. https://constructivist.info/7/3.196
Clarke B. (2019) Finding cybernetics. World Futures 75(1–2): 17–28. https://cepa.info/6240
Floyd C. (1992) Software development as reality construction. In: Floyd C., Züllighoven. H., Budde R. & Keil-Slawik R. (eds.) Software development and reality constructionSpringer-Verlag, Berlin: 86–100. https://cepa.info/3997
Foerster H. von & Müller A. (2008) Computing a Reality: Heinz von Foerster’s Lecture at the A.U.M Conference in 1973. Constructivist Foundations 4(1): 62–69. https://constructivist.info/4/1.62
Froese T. (2010) From Cybernetics to Second-Order Cybernetics: A Comparative Analysis of Their Central Ideas. Constructivist Foundations 5(2): 75-85. https://constructivist.info/5/2.75
Füllsack M. & Riegler A. (2017) Thinking in Eigenbehaviors as a Transdisciplinary Approach. Constructivist Foundations 12(3): 239–245. https://constructivist.info/12/3.239
Glasersfeld E. von (2002) Preface. In: Foerster H. von & Pörksen B. (eds.) Understanding systems. Conversations on epistemology and ethicsCarl Auer/Kluwer/Plenum, Heidelberg/NewYork: 11–12. https://cepa.info/1547
Hornischer H., Plakolb S., Jäger G. & Füllsack M. (2020) Foresight Rather than Hindsight? Future State Maximization As a Computational Interpretation of Heinz von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative. Constructivist Foundations 16(1): 036–049. https://constructivist.info/16/1.036
Kenny V. (2010) Exile on Mainstream. Constructivism in Psychotherapy and Suggestions from a Kellian Perspective. Constructivist Foundations 6(1): 65–76. https://constructivist.info/6/1.65
Leonard A. (2016) Recollections of My Years as ASC President: 2002–2004. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 23(1): 73–77. https://cepa.info/3511
Loktionov M. V. (2022) Современный взгляд на самореферентные системы: Кибернетика второго порядка [A modern look at self-referential systems: Cybernetics of the second-order]. Вопросы Философии 8: 206–210. https://cepa.info/8023
Müller A. (2017) Jean Piaget und die Erfindung von Radikalem Konstruktivismus und Kybernetik Zweiter Ordnung. In: Kanzian C., Kletzl S., Mitterer J. & Neges K. (eds.) Realism – relativism – constructivismDe Gruyter, Berlin: 73–82. https://cepa.info/4200
Müller K. H. & Riegler A. (2016) Mapping the Varieties of Second-Order Cybernetics. Constructivist Foundations 11(3): 443–454. https://constructivist.info/11/3.443
Scott B. (2011) Heinz von Foerster: contributions to psychology. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 18(3/4): 163–169. https://cepa.info/1789
Umpleby S. A. (2016) Second-Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science. Constructivist Foundations 11(3): 455–465. https://constructivist.info/11/3.455
Varela F. J. (1996) The early days of autopoiesis: Heinz and Chile. Systems Research 13(3): 407–417. https://cepa.info/2077