Heinz Von Foerster

Einführung in den Konstruktivismus

Bernhard Poerksen

How real is reality? Are our images of the world mere inventions, or does an external reality correspond to them? Is it possible to know truth? These are the questions that physicist and philosopher Heinz von Foerster and journalist Bernhard Poerksen debate about in their conversations. Together, they explore the borders of our capacity for knowledge. They discuss the seeming objectivity of our sensual perception, the consequences of "truth terrorism" and the connections between knowledge and ethics, sight and insight.

Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics

Understanding Systems

Robert Abramovitz

Or, the Control of Control and the Communication of Communication

Cybernetics of Cybernetics

How real is reality? Are our images of the world mere inventions, or does an external reality correspond to them? Is it possible to know the truth? These are questions that physicist and philosopher Heinz von Foerster and journalist Bernhard Poerksen debate about in their conversations. Together, they explore the borders of our capacity for knowledge. They discuss the seeming objectivity of our sensual perception, the consequences of "truth terrorism" and the connections between knowledge and ethics, sight and insight.

Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics

What is Memory that it May Have Hindsight and Foresight as Well?

Monika Silvia Broecker

Part of the World is the most extensive biographical account of Heinz von Foerster, the "Socrates of Cybernetics." The book reflects the significance of von Foerster's over-ninety-year-long life against the background of world and scientific history. In a fascinating dialog with Monika Broecker, who asks smart and empathic questions, von Foerster relates his life story and his most important thoughts. Many photographs are reproduced, some of them published here for the first time. This American edition is translated from German by Barbara Anger-D�az and contains a forward by Ernst von Glasersfeld.

Fractals of Ethics - a Drama in Three Acts

Part of the World

Observing Systems

Heinz Von Foerster

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