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Journal of Autopoietic Theory

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Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.

Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.



See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997

See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975

See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England


 

Articles:

On Boundaries Of Autopoietic Systems by Hugo Urrestarazu 040519


Reflexive Autopoiesis and Weak Measures by Kent Palmer 040517

Self-Adaptation, Self-Organization and Special Systems Theory by Kent Palmer 070326

 



Reviews:

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Provocations:

What is wrong with Traditional Autopoietic Theory by Kent Palmer 040519


William P. Hall 

IS THE PLASTID AN ENDOSYMBIONT?

Emergence and Growth of Knowedge and Diversity in Hierarchically Complex Living Systems
Towards a Science of  Knowledge

Working towards biologically based theories of organization and knowledge to understand how organizations work best

Abstracts for Papers on Autopoiesis


Research Note

Autopoietic Reflexive Systems

A General Theory of Ultra-efficient Special Systems and a new view of the nature of Holonomics

By Kent Palmer 1996


Tutorials:

The Ontological Foundations of Autopoietic Theory by Kent Palmer OLD


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