From: "John Mingers" <orsjm-AT-razor.wbs.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:34:25 GMT
Subject: Re: BHA: defining open / closed systems: autopoiesis refs


Hi

I have been asked to post references for 
Maturana and Varela to the list.

There are lots but the most important/accessible 
are:

Maturana, H. and Varela, F., 1980,  Autopoiesis
and Cognition: The Realization of the Living,
Reidel, Dordrecht.
 Maturana, H. and Varela, F.,
1987,  The Tree of Knowledge, Shambhala, Boston.

Maturana, H., 1988,  Reality: the search for
objectivity or the quest for a compelling
argument. Irish Journal of Psychology 9:25-82.
Maturana, H., 1990,  Science and daily life: the
ontology of scientific explanations. In
Selforganization: Portrait of a Scientific
Revolution, ( W. Krohn, G. Kuppers and H. Nowotny,
eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht,
pp.12-35.
Varela, F., Thompson, E. and Rosch, E., 1991, The
Embodied Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.


John

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