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Aufenvenne P., Egner H. & Elverfeldt K. (2014) Authors’ Response: Communicating Second-Order Science. Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 135–139. https://cepa.info/1184
Aufenvenne P.
,
Egner H.
&
Elverfeldt K.
(
2014
)
Authors’ Response: Communicating
Second-Order
Science
.
Constructivist Foundations
10(1): 135–139.
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Upshot:
For communicating
second-order
science, von Foerster’s ethical imperative provides a viable starting point. Proceeding from this, we plead in favour of emphasising the common grounds of diverging scientific opinions and of various approaches in
second-order
science instead of focussing on the differences. This will provide a basis for communication and stimulate scientific self-reflection.
Aufenvenne P., Egner H. & Elverfeldt K. (2014) On Climate Change Research, the Crisis of Science and Second-order Science. Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 120–129. https://cepa.info/1179
Aufenvenne P.
,
Egner H.
&
Elverfeldt K.
(
2014
)
On Climate Change Research, the Crisis of Science and
Second-order
Science
.
Constructivist Foundations
10(1): 120–129.
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Context:
This conceptual paper tries to tackle the advantages and the limitations that might arise from including
second-order
science into global climate change sciences, a research area that traditionally focuses on first-order approaches and that is currently attracting a lot of media and public attention.
Problem:
The high profile of climate change research seems to provoke a certain dilemma for scientists: despite the slowly increasing realization within the sciences that our knowledge is temporary, tentative, uncertain, and far from stable, the public expectations towards science and scientific knowledge are still the opposite: that scientific results should prove to be objective, reliable, and authoritative. As a way to handle the uncertainty, scientists tend to produce “varieties of scenarios” instead of clear statements, as well as reports that articulate different scientific opinions about the causes and dynamics of change (e.g., the IPCC. This might leave the impression of vague and indecisive results. As a result, esteem for the sciences seems to be decreasing within public perception.
Method:
This paper applies
second-order
observation to climate change research in particular and the sciences in general.
Results:
Within most sciences, it is still quite unusual to disclose and discuss the epistemological foundations of the respective research questions, methods and ways to interpret data, as research proceeds mainly from some version of realistic epistemological positions. A shift towards self-reflexive
second-order
science might offer possibilities for a return to a “less polarized” scientific and public debate on climate change because it points to knowledge that is in principle tentative, uncertain and fragmented as well as to the theory- and observation-dependence of scientific work.
Implications:
The paper addresses the differences between first-order and
second-order
science as well as some challenges of science in general, which
second-order
science might address and disclose.
Constructivist content:
Second-order
science used as observation praxis (
second-order
observation) for this specific field of research.
Key words:
Second-order science
,
climate change research
,
observation theory
,
theory-dependency
,
causality
,
production of knowledge.
Baecker D. (1996) A note on composition. Systems Research 13(3): 195–204. https://cepa.info/2929
Baecker D.
(
1996
)
A note on composition
.
Systems Research
13(3): 195–204.
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It is characteristic of Heinz von Foerster’s approach to the cybernetics of cybernetics that it combines a sense of tight reasoning with the acknowledgment of fundamental ignorance. The article attempts to uncover an epistemological relationship between the reasoning and the ignorance. The relationship is provided for by a razor which reads: what can be described in relation to its composition, is described in vain in relation to its substance. The razor asks for
second-order
terms instead of first-order terms, or for ontogenetics instead of ontology.
Key words:
closure
,
communication
,
composition
,
epistemology
Baecker D. (1997) Reintroducing communication into cybernetics. Systemica 11: 11–29. https://cepa.info/2930
Baecker D.
(
1997
)
Reintroducing communication into cybernetics
.
Systemica
11: 11–29.
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The paper recalls some skeptical comments Norbert Wiener made regarding the potential use of cybernetics in social sciences. A few social scientists were seduced by cybernetics from the beginning, but cybernetics never really caught on in sociology. The paper argues that one reason for this may lie in the mathematical theory of communication entertained by early cybernetics. This theory which maintains that there are probability distributions of possible communication is at odds with the sociological theory’s idea of a communication driven by improbable understanding. Yet the move from first-order cybernetics to
second-order
cybernetics, by re-entering the observer into the very systems she observes, provides for a bridge between cybernetics and sociology.
Key words:
Communication
,
culture
,
cybernetics
,
double closure
,
observer
,
sociology
,
technology
,
understanding
Baecker D. (2010) The Culture of Cybernetics. Review of “The Black Boox. Volume III: 39 Steps” by Ranulph Glanville. Edition echoraum, Vienna, 2009. Constructivist Foundations 5(2): 102-103. https://constructivist.info/5/2/102
Baecker D.
(
2010
)
The Culture of Cybernetics. Review of “The Black Boox. Volume III: 39 Steps” by Ranulph Glanville. Edition echoraum, Vienna, 2009
.
Constructivist Foundations
5(2): 102-103.
Fulltext at https://constructivist.info/5/2/102
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Upshot:
Ranulph Glanville’s musings about cybernetics are statements of wonder as much as careful reconstructions of the core ideas of cybernetics. In Vol. III of his Black Boox all 39 of them are collected, which appeared between 1994 and 2009 in the Journal, Cybernetics and Human Knowing. If Heinz von Foerster said that the ideas of
second-order
cybernetics are nowadays to be found just about everywhere in everyday life, Glanville is not that sure about this.
Baecker D. (2015) The Be-ing of Objects. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 22(2–3): 49–58. https://cepa.info/3486
Baecker D.
(
2015
)
The Be-ing of Objects
.
Cybernetics & Human Knowing
22(2–3): 49–58.
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The paper is a reading of Martin Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Even) by means of Ranulph Glanville’s notions of black box, cybernetic control and objects as well as by George Spencer-Brown’s notion of form and Fritz Heider’s notion of medium. In fact, as Heidegger was among those who emphasized systems thinking as the epitome of modern thinking, did in his lecture on Schelling’s Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom a most thorough reading of this thinking, and considered cybernetics the very fulfilment of modern science it is interesting to know whether
second-order
cybernetics, as it was not known to Heidegger and as it delves into an understanding of inevitable complexity and foundational ignorance, falls within that verdict mere modernity or goes beyond it. If modern science in its rational understanding considers its subjects to be objects sitting still while being observed, then indeed
second-order
cybernetics is different. It looks into the observer’s interactions with black boxes, radically uncertain of where to expect operations of a self, but certain that we cannot restrict it to human consciousness.
Balsemão Pires E. (2011) A individuação da sociedade moderna (The individuation of modern society). Coimbra University Press, Coimbra. https://cepa.info/1139
Balsemão Pires E.
(
2011
)
A individuação da sociedade moderna (The individuation of modern society)
.
Coimbra University Press, Coimbra.
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The book uses the method and categories of systems theory (inspired by Niklas Luhmann) in a scrutiny of the evolution of the main semantic trends of modern society and its influence in the formation of the systemic boundaries of the social systems of society. The book is an investigation of the meaning of the functional differentiation according to its semantic symptoms and evolution. In order to reconstruct the semantic evolution of basic modern socio-economic categories the book is divided according to the three classic branches of the political philosophy of the classic tradition, the Aristotelian division also conserved in Hegel’s own distribution of the themes of his “Sittlichkeit” – family, civil society and the state. Thus, in “The Individuation of Modern Society” the author explores the classic notion of oikós and its opposition to the pólis, the evolution of the concept of utility in modern times and its importance to the formation of the modern political economy and the economic system as an autonomous functional system, the idea of “civil society,” its meaning in the Hegelian description of the social modernity, the fragmentation of XVIIIth century civil society according to the use of the term “Entzweiung” in the Hegelian philosophical vocabulary, and the formation of the concept of the nation as a self-referential condition of the political system. The book finishes with a discussion of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of functional differentiation and his concept of the political system.
Relevance:
The book applies
second-order
cybernetics to the analysis of the evolution of modern social systems, especially in the case of the formation of self-referential conditions for the observation and reproduction of the systems.
Balsemão Pires E. (2013) The epistemological meaning of Luhmann\s critique of classical ontology. Systema: Connecting Matter, Life, Culture and Technology 1(1): 5–20. https://cepa.info/1126
Balsemão Pires E.
(
2013
)
The epistemological meaning of Luhmann's critique of classical ontology
.
Systema: Connecting Matter, Life, Culture and Technology
1(1): 5–20.
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This paper is a discussion of the sustainability of a concept of “world” compatible with the “operative constructivism” and the operative conception of observation of systems theory of according to Niklas Luhmann. The paper scrutinizes the concepts of observation of H. von Foerster, H. Maturana, G. Günther and N. Luhmann, providing the general framework of “operative constructivism.” Particularly, the paper will focus on N. Luhmann’s understanding of the role of observation in the constitution of the self-reference of the social systems of the modern society. The case of the “systems of art” will be briefly inspected. What place shall we concede to the idea of an “objective” world, according to the systems theory? Are systems “objective”? According to N. Luhmann, for the description of systems only operations are “objective.” However, an operation is not an entity, which means that we need to depict a new kind of “objects,” very different from the ’thing-objectivity” of the ancient metaphysics and different from the Cartesian concept of “res.” What does objectivity mean according to systems theory? This question was at stake in the formulation of N. Luhmann’s Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft: Society is “weder Subjekt noch Objekt.” This paper attempts to address this formula.
Relevance:
The paper deals with the epistemological explanation of
second-order
observations in social systems according to Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. It clarifies the world vision of the constructivism movement.
Balsemão Pires E. (2014) Systemic-internal and Theoretical Views on Second-Order Observations. Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 56–58. https://cepa.info/1162
Balsemão Pires E.
(
2014
)
Systemic-internal and Theoretical Views on
Second-Order
Observations
.
Constructivist Foundations
10(1): 56–58.
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Open peer commentary on the article “The Circular Conditions of
Second-order
Science Sporadically Illustrated with Agent-based Experiments at the Roots of Observation” by Manfred Füllsack.
Upshot:
I address Füllsack’s main conclusions in his article regarding the meaning of
second-order
observations. Especially envisaged are the epistemological and ontological difficulties raised by his scrutiny of the merging between systemic-internal conditions of
second-order
reflexivity and the thematic-theoretical accounts of selection, intentionality and purposiveness in evolutionary systems.
Balsemão Pires E. (2016) Second order ethics as therapy. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken. https://cepa.info/4578
Balsemão Pires E.
(
2016
)
Second order
ethics as therapy
.
Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken.
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The classical formulation of the object of ethics refers to a knowledge of the rules of the adaptation of the human species to their natural environments, to normative expectations supposed in the others and to the biographical evolution of the self. Accordingly, a doctrine of the duties was edified on three pillars, embracing a reference to the duties towards nature, towards the others and towards oneself. Notwithstanding the fact that human action obeys to a variety of factors including bio-physiological conditions and the dimensions of the social environment, ancient and modern metaphysical models of ethics favored the commendatory discourse about the predicates “right” and “wrong,” concurring to ultimate goals. The ethical discussions consisted chiefly in the investigation of the adequacy of the subordinate goals to the final ends of the human action or in the treatment of the metaphysical questions related to free will or determinism, the opposition of the intentionality of the voluntary conduct of man to the mechanical or quasi-mechanical responses of the inferior organisms or machines. From a “
second order
” approach to the ethical action and imperatives, I propose with this book a critical analysis of the metaphysical and the Kantian ethics.
Relevance:
In “Ethics and
Second-Order
Cybernetics” (1992) Heinz von Foerster referred the importance of the application of his notion of “
second-order
cybernetics” to ethics and moral reasoning. Initially,
second-order
cybernetics intended an epistemological discussion of recursive operations in non-trivial machines, which were able to include in their evolving states their own self-awareness in observations. The application of his views to ethics entails new challenges. After H. von Foerster essay, what I mean with “
second-order
ethics is an attempt to identify the advantages of the adoption of his proposal, some consequences in the therapeutically field and lines for new developments.
Key words:
Ethics
,
moral discourse
,
commendations
,
second-order cybernetics
,
observer
,
objectivity
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