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* ''Observing Systems'', intro. Francisco J. Varela, Seaside, CA: Intersystems, 1981, xvi+331 pp; 2nd ed, 1984, xviii+331 pp. | * ''Observing Systems'', intro. Francisco J. Varela, Seaside, CA: Intersystems, 1981, xvi+331 pp; 2nd ed, 1984, xviii+331 pp. | ||
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| + | * ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5C342ABC99F28915CD0A49761060E1A6 Sicht und Einsicht: Versuche zu einer operativen Erkenntnistheorie]'', Braunschweig: Vieweg+Teubner, 1985, xi+236 pp. [https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783528084684] {{de}} | ||
* ''[[Media:von Foerster Heinz Las semillas de la cibernetica 1991.pdf|Las semillas de la cibernética]]'', ed. & trans. Marcelo Pakman, intro. Carlos Sluzki, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1991. {{es}} | * ''[[Media:von Foerster Heinz Las semillas de la cibernetica 1991.pdf|Las semillas de la cibernética]]'', ed. & trans. Marcelo Pakman, intro. Carlos Sluzki, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1991. {{es}} | ||
Revision as of 19:19, 17 April 2020
Heinz von Foerster (13 November 1911, Vienna – 2 October 2002, Pescadero, California) was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of Second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow (1956-1957 and 1963-1964) and also was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980.
Contents
Publications
- editor, Cybernetics of Cybernetics, or, the Control of Control and the Communication of Communication (BCL Report 73.38), Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1974; 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Future Systems, 1995, 497 pp. A collection of papers by distinguished cyberneticians with graphic commentaries and original texts and definitions composed by students in von Foerster’s “Cybernetics of Cybernetics” seminar.
- Observing Systems, intro. Francisco J. Varela, Seaside, CA: Intersystems, 1981, xvi+331 pp; 2nd ed, 1984, xviii+331 pp.
- Sicht und Einsicht: Versuche zu einer operativen Erkenntnistheorie, Braunschweig: Vieweg+Teubner, 1985, xi+236 pp. [1] (German)
- Las semillas de la cibernética, ed. & trans. Marcelo Pakman, intro. Carlos Sluzki, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1991. (Spanish)
- Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition, New York: Springer, 2003, 362 pp. Incl. "Objects: Tokens for (Eigen-)Behaviors", pp 261-271.
- The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days With Second-Order Cybernetics, eds. Albert Mueller and Karl H. Mueller, trans. Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher, New York: Fordham University, 2013.
Interviews
- Peter Bexte, "Warum sind Computer musikalisch, Herr von Foerster?", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 Dec 1988. (German)
Literature
- Gordon Pask, "Heinz von Foerster's Self-Organisation, the Progenitor of Conversation and Interaction Theories", Systems Research 13:3, 1996, pp 349-362. Pask's last paper, on his work together with von Foerster and their account of the history of cybernetics.
- Evelyne Andreewsky, Robert Delorme (eds.), Seconde cybernétique et complexité: rencontres avec Heinz von Foerster, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006. (French)
