New Perspectives on Cybernetics Self-Organization, Autonomy and Conn
Gertrudis Van de Vijver· Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition. Des
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SYNTHESE LffiRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University Editors: DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Pittsburgh
VOLUME 220
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CYBERNETICS Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism
Edited by GERTRUDIS VAN DE VIJVER University o/Ghent, Belgium
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data NeH perspectlves on cybernetlcs : se1f-organlzatlon. autonoay. and connectlonisa I edited by Gertrudls van de Vljver. p. CI. -- (Synthese 11brary ; v. 2201 1nc1udes blb)lographlca1 references and Index. 1. Cybernetlcs. 2. Se1f-organlzlng systems. 3. Automatlc contro1. 1. Vljver. Gertrudis van deo 11. Serles. Q310.N48 1992 003·.5--dc20 91-34827
ISBN 978-90-481-4107-4 ISBN 978-94-015-8062-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8062-5
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CONTENTS
G. Van de Vijver: Preface G. Pask: Introduction: Different kinds of cybernetics
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Self-organization and complexity H. Allan: Ends and meaning in machine-like systems S. Salthe: Hierarchical non-equilibrium self-organization as the new post-cybernetic perspective E. Bernard-Weil: A priori and a posteriori in cognitive praxis: the model for the regulation of agonistic antagonistic couples F. Heylighen: Non-rational cognitive processes as changes of distinctions
35 49 59 77
Epistemological issues F. Vandamme: Self-organization and autonomy in a post-cybernetic perspective. Epistemological issues G. Van de Vijver: The experimental epistemology of W.S. McCulloch. A minimalistic interpretation D. Andler: From paleo- to neo-connectionism P. Livet: Second cybernetics: a double strategy for representing cognition T. Meynen: The bringing forth of dialogue: Latour versus Maturana A. Goudsmit: A one-sided boundary: on the limits of knowing organizational closure P. Burghgraeve: Mechanistic explanations and structure-determined systems. Maturana and the human sciences
97 105 125 147 157 175 207
Sociological issues G. Pask: Correspondence, consensus, coherence and the rape of democracy 221 E. Rosseel: Writers of the lost I: second-order self-observation and absolute writership 233 Index
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PREFACE Gertrudis Van de Vijver· Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent
Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition. Despite all rejections that
