The invented reality

Norton

1984

347 p.

Contents: Part 1. Introduction -- An introduction to radical constructivism / Ernst von Glasersfeld -- On constructing a reality / Heinz von Foerster -- Part 2. Effect or cause? -- The consequences of causal thinking / Rupert Riedl -- Self-fulfilling prophecies / Paul Watzlawick -- On being sane in insane places / David L. Rosenhan -- Self-reflexivity in literature : the example of Samuel Beckett's novel trilogy / Rolf Breuer -- Part 3. The imperfect perfection -- Active and passive negation : an essay in Ibanskian sociology / Jon Elster -- Components of ideological "realities" / Paul Watzlawick -- Part 4. The fly and the fly-bottle -- Can an inquiry into the foundations of mathematics tell us anything interesting about mind? / Gabriel Stolzenberg -- The creative circle: sketches on the natural history of circularity / Francisco J. Varela.

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