Subject: Re: Routledge Guidebook to Being and Time (translation)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:39:39 +0100


sorry, this may be a German _Bezeichnung_. There is a strong (!) lobby for
constructivism in Germany now
and it comes indeed from maturana/varela, von foerster an others.
there was a huge congress in heidelberg (participants should pay some 300
dollars or so...) on this.
of course this goes back (at least) to kant.
There is a refusal of (classic) ontology, reality is a construct (of my
head) etc.
i see some (problematic) connections to h. (geworfenheit and entwurf, no
definite Being etc.).
this school (constructivism) is not very popular in academic philosophy in
germany, but it is in science  (particular among biologists)
Rafael

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Von: jim <jmd-AT-dasein.demon.co.uk>
An: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Datum: Samstag, 23. Januar 1999 15:37
Betreff: Re: Routledge Guidebook to Being and Time (translation)


>In message <000201be45f7$ec9e7980$c5d80d81-AT-capurro-1>,
>Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro <capurro-AT-hbi-stuttgart.de> writes
>>jim
>>what is the meanig of all this with regard to _radical constructivism_?
>>(Maturana/Varela, von Foerster etc. etc.)
>Hi Rafael,
>I honestly don't understand where the "radical constructivism" came
>from. It isn't a word i would ever use. Maturana and Varela (that goes
>back several months indeed) are authors of the (biological) concept
>auto-poiesis, self-producing/organizing. Seen from this concept,
>between the 'external world' and 'the subject' -- what have
>traditionionally been seen as metaphysically separate or, at least,
>separable -- there is such an intrinsic (metaphysical?) 'belongingness'
>that we can make no sense of the one in isolation from the other. In
>short, we might say that Dasein is an autopoietic structure (as are,
>therefore, intentionality, concsiousness, etc.).
>--
>jim
>
>
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