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Index
Contents Acknowledgement of Sources Prologue
A Brief History of (Second-Order) Cybernetics
References
Mapping the Varieties of Second-Order Cybernetics
Introduction Reconstructing SOC Towards a map of second-orderE cybernetics and of second-order science The Kline-Martin-Hypothesis revisited Conclusion Afterword: Ranulph Glanville’s contributions to second-order cybernetics Acknowledgements References
Part I: Exploring Second-Order Cybernetics and its Fivefold Agenda
Second-Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science
Introduction Part 1: A short personal history of second-order cybernetics Part 2: Von Foerster and a revolution of the general scientific method Part 3: An example of practicing social research from within Part 4: Important consequences of doing science from within Part 5: New horizons for second-order cybernetics Conclusion Acknowledgement Obstacles and Opportunities in the Future of Second-Order Cybernetics and Other Compatible Methods Connecting Second-Order Cybernetics’ Revolution with Genetic Epistemology
A broader approach towards epistemology Challenges and achievements
Shed the Name to Find Second-Order Success: Renaming Second-Order Cybernetics to Rescue its Essence Beware False Dichotomies Second-Order Cybernetics Needs a Unifying Methodology
Introduction Expanding the research arena Developing a sense-making methodology for second-order cybernetics Advancing the science of second-order cybernetics Conclusion
Viva the Fundamental Revolution! Confessions of a Case Writer
Introduction Background Second-order cybernetics and the case writing process The role of second-order cybernetics in business research Conclusion
Author’s Response: Struggling to Define an Identity for Second-Order Cybernetics
The context of second-order cybernetics Some debates within the field Implications for applications Conclusion Combined References
Cybernetics, Reflexivity and Second-Order Science
Introduction Distinction and circularity Mathematics The definition of cybernetics and the cybernetics of definition Cybernetics and reflexive domains Conclusion Remarks from a Continental Philosophy Point of View Finally Understanding Eigenforms Eigenforms, Coherence, and the Imaginal
Context: Science and anti-science Eigenforms and the imaginal Second-order objectivity, precision, and coherence
Conserving the Disposition for Wonder Author’s Response: Distinction, Eigenform and the Epistemology of the Imagination
Combined References
Cybernetic Foundations for Psychology
Introduction The story of psychology Understanding cybernetics and its contributions to psychology: The story of cybernetics Cybernetics in psychology Unifying “process” and “person” approaches Unifying individual and social psychologies Future directions Conclusion Appendix: Contents of standard undergraduate textbooks Wielding the Cybernetic Scythe in the Blunting Undergrowth of Psychological Confusion
Introduction “Psychology” does not exist Irrelevance of psychological research Cooking the books The replication crisis “Guild-ing the wily” Conclusion: A genuinely psychological psychology
To What Extent Can Second-Order Cybernetics Be a Foundation for Psychology? The Importance – and the Difficulty – of Moving Beyond Linear Causality
Linear causality: The underlying paradigm of science Why a paradigm shift is worthwhile but difficult to achieve Conclusion Acknowledgement
Obstacles to Cybernetics Becoming a Conceptual Framework and Metanarrative in the Psychologies
The sidelining of cybernetics Obstacle 1: Teacher and learner challenges Obstacle 2: Traditional universities Obstacle 3: Linear causality, research methodology, and technological efficacy Obstacle 4: Personal preference, ethics, and responsibilities Conclusion
The Social and the Psychological: Conceptual Cybernetic Unification vs Disciplinary Analysis? Second Thoughts on Cybernetic Unifications
The problem of levels The problem of multiple-level dynamics The problem of being sufficiently different
Cybernetics and Synergetics as Foundations for Complex Approach Towards Complexities of Life
Introduction “Third-order” cybernetics Synergetics Conclusion
Author’s Response: On Becoming and Being a Cybernetician
Acknowledgements Combined References
Consciousness as Self-Description in Differences
Introduction Part 1: How consciousness does not work
The subject–object uncertainty Reflection is always self-reflection
Part 2: How consciousness works
Consciousness is “a difference that makes difference” Differentiation – local and global level
Conclusion Acknowledgments On the Too Often Overlooked Complexity of the Tension between Subject and Object
Naturalistic dualism The language of consciousness Science or a mystery Chiasm Beyond the limits of consciousness
Where Is Consciousness?
Hiding in plain sight Can there be a theory of consciousness? Attending the unattendable
Theorizing Agents: Their Games, Hermeneutical Tools and Epistemic Resources How Can Meaning be Grounded within a Closed Self-Referential System?… Self-Description Alone Will not Account for Qualia Consciousness as Self-Description and the Inescapability of Reduction The Non-Relationality of Consciousness Author’s Response: Phenomenology of the System: Intentionality, Differences, Understanding, and the Unity of Consciousness
Science or mystery: The role of understanding How closed is the system? Differences and the unity of consciousness Acknowledgement Combined References
Design Research as a Variety of Second-Order Cybernetic Practice
Introduction Method and practice in design and research Design research and second-order cybernetics Second-order science Conclusion Acknowledgements Design Cycles: Conversing with Lawrence Halprin Understanding Design from a Second-Order Cybernetics Perspective: Is There a Place for Material Agency? What Can Cybernetics Learn from Design?
Differentiating externally motivated application and internally motivated practice The pleasure of constructing the world Cybernetic machines for thinking and showing
Rigor in Research, Honesty and Values Digital Design Research and Second-Order Cybernetics Cybernetics Is the Answer, but What Was the Conversation About?
Design as an invitation to dialogue Conclusion
(Architectural) Design Research in the Age of Neuroscience: The Value of the Second-Order Cybernetic Practice Perspective Author’s Response: Beyond Application
Ill-defined problems Material agency and viability Designing systems Combined References
“Black Box” Theatre: Second-Order Cybernetics and Naturalism in Rehearsal and Performance
Introduction The impasse in theatre studies Stanislavski’s cybernetic system Active Analysis: An ordinary language description Beginnings Active Analysis: A conversation theoretic description Conversation A The stage as modeling facility Conversation B and the return to the text Conversation A: Subsequent iterations with re-entry Performance Future directions Conclusion Bruce Clarke & Dorothy Chansky “Truthful” Acting Emerges Through Forward Model Development Naturalism in Improvisation and Embodiment Opening the Black Box of Minds: Theatre as a Laboratory of System Unknowns Does Second-Order Cybernetics Provide a Framework for Theatre Studies? A Theatre for Exploring the Cybernetic The Many Varieties of Experimentation in Second-Order Cybernetics: Art, Science, Craft
Dynamics and relations Recursion Conversation
Author’s Response: “Playing With Dynamics”: Procedures and Possibilities for a Theatre of Cybernetics
Procedures Possibilities Combined References
Part II: Reflecting on the Perspectives for a Fivefold Agenda of Second-Order Cybernetics
Remarks of a Philosopher of Mathematics and Science
Structural style Objectivity Sustainability Conclusion
The Past and the Future of Second-Order Cybernetics
References
Embracing Realists Without Embracing Realism: The Future of Second-Order Cybernetics
Introduction Resistance to change Including realism within a constructivist approach Including constructivism within realism Context allows pragmatic bedfellows Embracing realists without embracing realism Concepts/tools for participant-observers Contributions past and present Recommendations Conclusion Acknowledgements References
Some Implications of Second-Order Cybernetics
From emergence to methodology Second-order science as designed practice
1. The triadic network: Observer, language, society 2. Reflexivity and reciprocity 3. Circularity and re-entry 4. Reflection and perception 5. Transdisciplinarity 6. Multi-perspectival dialogic 7. Intervention and ethics
Towards a conscious methodology The implications for human affairs References
New Directions in Second-Order Cybernetics
What is new? What would success look like? Second-order cybernetics and six conceptual problems Paradigms and the problem of the two cultures: Science and art Disciplines and the problem of logical types Desires and the problem of conscious purpose Craft and the problem of time Design and the problem of participation Ethics and the problem of human nature New directions and questions References
Epilogue
Possible Futures for Cybernetics
References
Author Biographies
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