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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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CONSTRUCTIONISM 1)

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According to E.von GLASERSFELD, this term has been " invented by K. GERGEN to distinguish his way of thinking from that of other constructivists"(1999, p. 11)

According to GERGEN "The constructionist is centrally concerned with such matters as negotiation, cooperation, conflict, rethoric, ritual, roles, special scenarios, and the like, but avoids psychological explorations of microsocial process"(1995, p. 25)

Thus, constructionism seems more "conversational "(in PASK's way) than autopoietic (in von FOERSTER's and MATURANA's way) somewhat at variance with constructivism.

Anyhow, both concepts are closely related and, as in the case of the egg and hen, it is quite difficult to distinguish what came first.

Indeed, von GLASERSFELD concludes: "What speakers have learned to mean always remain their own construction"(p. 16)

(See the special issue of "Cybernetics and Human knowing" 6(1) 1999 on "Radical constructivism in education" for more on this subject.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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