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From being to doing : the origins of the biology of cognition / Humberto R. Maturana, Bernhard Poerksen ; translated by Wolfram Karl Koeck and Alison Rosemary Koeck.

Title
From being to doing : the origins of the biology of cognition / Humberto R. Maturana, Bernhard Poerksen ; translated by Wolfram Karl Koeck and Alison Rosemary Koeck.
Author
Maturana, Humberto, 1928-2021
Publication
Heidelberg : Carl Auer Verlag, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Pörksen, Bernhard.
  • Koeck, Wolfram Karl.
  • Koeck, Alison Rosemary.
Description
208 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Uniform Title
Vom Sein zum Tun. English
Alternative Title
Vom Sein zum Tun.
Subject
  • Maturana, Humberto, 1928-2021 > Interviews
  • Pörksen, Bernhard > Interviews
  • Cognition
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Scientists > Interviews
  • Philosophers > Interviews
Genre/Form
Interviews
Language (note)
  • Translated from the German.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. The cosmos : an explanation of observing -- 1. Without the observer, there is nothing -- 2. Varieties of objectivity -- 3. The biology of cognition -- 4. On the autonomy of systems -- 5. How closed systems interact -- 6. Autopoiesis is living -- 7. The history of an idea -- -- II. Application of a theory -- 1. Psychotherapy -- 2. Education -- -- III. History of a theory -- 1. Beginnings and inspirations -- 2. Return to Chile -- 3. Experience of a dictatorship -- 4. Worlds of science -- -- IV. Ethics of a theory -- 1. The biology of love
ISBN
  • 3896704486
  • 9783896704481
OCLC
  • 59207392
  • SCSB-10275361
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library