Biology’s Room With a View / Fell, Lloyd -- Russell, David

In: Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding. Lloyd Fell, David Russell & Alan Stewart (Eds.) A collection of papers to celebrate the visit to Australia in August 1994 by Humberto Maturana. - - 1994

The diverse papers which make up this book are variations on a theme which is based in biological science - yet none of the contributors is really a biologist. Our metaphor for describing what we are doing here is that we have gathered together in a room because that particular room provides us with a certain view of our individual areas of interest - a view that may have been previously obscured. We are visiting the house of biology in the hope that we may see more clearly things that we each find baffling about our particular field of work in education, research, or daily living.

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Non-Traditional R & D / Fell, Lloyd -- Russell, David

In: Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding. Lloyd Fell, David Russell & Alan Stewart (Eds.) A collection of papers to celebrate the visit to Australia in August 1994 by Humberto Maturana. - - 1994

Uncertainty about funding; difficulty in determining research priorities; and concern about technology transfer (the lack of application of research results): these words stand out in the language of scientific/industrial research and development, today. So-called technology transfer seems to be the central issue because the criteria for determining research priorities and funding decisions are mostly based on the expected "pay off", i.e. the economic benefits which will result from the research findings being put into use within the industry. This applies, not only in situations where the industry is providing a proportion of the funding, as in most agricultural research, but to scientific research generally which is intended for the "public good."

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The Dance of Understanding / Fell, Lloyd -- Russell, David

In: Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding. Lloyd Fell, David Russell & Alan Stewart (Eds.) A collection of papers to celebrate the visit to Australia in August 1994 by Humberto Maturana. - - 1994

We subscribe to the view, expressed by Maturana and others, that a satisfying experience of understanding does not result from invoking objectivity, the truth, or a compelling argument, to achieve agreement by the force of reason, nor from a process of information exchange, but from some other qualities of the biological interaction itself. We find a simple explanation of these qualities to be elusive and therefore we try to combine scientific explanation with a poetic metaphor which likens understanding to a dance.

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Nachruf auf Heinz von Foerster / Foerster, Heinz von

Biografie a rozhovory s H. von Foestrem.

Viz též: Heinz v. Foerster

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Metaphysics of an experimental epistemologist / Foerster, Heinz von

In: Vordenker. - - 1995

Most likely, everything that could be said about Warren McCulloch has been said already and, most likely, everything that McCulloch ever said, had never been said before. What to say now about Warren McCulloch and what he did say. I am most grateful to Seymour Papert. who concluded his introduction to the first published collection of some of McCulloch ́s essays, Embodiments of Mind (1), by reminding us of one of his favorite teaching aids to help his baffled disciples to overcome their bebafflement: "Don ́t bite my finger, look where I am pointing."

Hesla: etika ; kybernetika ; radikální konstruktivismus ; teorie

Viz též: Metaphysics of an experimental epistemologist

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Konstrukce reality / Foerster, Heinz von

Originální název: On Constructing a Reality

In: International Conference on Environmental Design Research on April 15, 1973, at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. - - 1973

Draw a distinction!

Hesla: etika ; kybernetika ; radikální konstruktivismus ; teorie

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Nativist constraints on cognitive Processes called into Question / Gash, Hugh

In: Neoconstructivism. The New Science of Cognitive Development” edited by Scott Johnson. Oxford University Press, Oxford. - - 2009

Recent research on young children’s cognitive development supports the viability of a neoconstructivist model of learning. These new approaches support a bottom-up account of knowledge acquisition that incorporates many constructivist principles and does not support top- down nativist models.

Různé: Recenze

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The Implementation of a Constructivist Approach to the Resolution of Prejudice / Gash, Hugh -- Kenny, Vincent

In: A talk based on an earlier version of this paper was given at the American Society for Cybernetics conference at Amherst Massachusetts on July 19 1991. - - 1991

Using a consistently constructivist approach, the formation of prejudices, their role in identity, and their resultant resilience are examined. Next, the strategies which may be used to persuade people to change such constructs are considered. For the person who owns the prejudice these amount to experiences which invite reconsideration of existing ways of construing: for one who desires to invite another to change, these strategies include distancing, circular questioning, circulation, parenthesising and orthogonality of facilitator position.

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Ghost in the therapy machine / Gergen, Kenneth J.

An interview with Kenneth Gergen

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Why did Gregory Bateson overlook some basic Lamarckian tenets? / Gershenowitz, Harry

In: Indian Journal of History of Science. - Roč. 18, č. 2, s. 137-153. - 1983

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