Søren Brier

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The Royal School of Librarianship, Aalborg Branch
Langagervej 4
DK 9220 Aalborg øst
Denmark.
Phone: +45 98 157922
Fax: +45 98 151042
E-mail: sbr@db.dk

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Ved Vandløbet 21
DK-2610 Rødovre
Phone +45 42 844162.

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Founder and editor of the interdisciplinary Danish journal "Paradigma" from 1986 - 1990.

Papers in English

  1. Brier, S. (1992):"Foreword" (positional statement) in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol.1, no.1, pp.1-4.
  2. Brier, S. (1992):"A philosophy of science perspective - on the idea of a unifying information science" in P. Vakkari and B. Cronin (ed.) (1992) : Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives" Taylor Graham, London, pp.97-108.
  3. Brier, S. (1992):"Information and Consciousness: A Critique of the Mechanistic foundation of the Concept of Information" in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol.1, no. 2/3, pp 71- 94.
  4. Brier, S. (1993): "Conversational Ethics and the Global Environment" in Cybernetics & Human Knowing Vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 51-55.
  5. Brier. S. (1994): "Second Order Cybernetic and Semiotic Perspective on the Idea of a Unifying Information Science." In the Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Systems Research and Cybernetics of The International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics and Society for Applied Systems Research in Baden Baden, August 2-8, 1993. In press.
  6. Brier, S. (1993): "Cyber-Semiotics: Second order cybernetics and the Semiotics of C.S. Peirce" in Proceedings from the Second European Congress on System Science, Prague, October 5-8. 1993. AFCET.
  7. Brier, S. (1993): "A Cybernetic and Semiotic View on A Galilean Theory of Psychology", in Cybernetics & Human Knowing Vol.2 no.2, (pp. 31-46) Aalborg.
  8. Brier, S. (1994): "On the foundation of Consciousness in a Theory of Knowledge" and "An Alternative Understanding of Knowledge and Information Based on a Paradigm of Higher States of Consciousness" p.1335-1356 in Brady, B. and Peano, L. (ed.)(1994): New Systems Thinking and Action for a New Century, International Society for the Systems Sciences, Proceedings of the Thirty-Eight Annual Meeting, Asilomar Conference Centre, Pacific Grove, California, June 14-19, 1994.
  9. Brier, S. (1994): "Second Order Cybernetic and Semiotic Perspective on the Idea of a Unified Information Science" pp.5-10 in Lasker, G. E. (1994): Advances in Interdis- ciplinary Research and Cybernetics, vol.1, International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
  10. Brier, S. (1994):" On the Foundation of Consciousness in a Theory of Knowledge" p. 81-89 in Lasker, G.E, & Murphy, D. (eds.)(1994):Advances in Research of Human Consciousness, 111 pp, International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, IIAS-12-94, ISBN 0921836163.
  11. Brier, S. (1995):"Trust in the order of things", A review of Mathews, Freya (1994). The Ecological Self, Routledge, London, pp.292. For Systems Practise. Vol 9, nr. 4, 1996, pp. 377-385.
  12. Brier, S. (1995): "Childhood, Ethics and Civilization: Attachment and the modern family's problems with the emphatic upbringing of children."Conference paper to the 7th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15-21 august in Baden Baden. The International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
  13. Brier, S. (1995): "Wages for Family Workers", Conference paper to the 7th In- ternational Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15-21 august in Baden Baden. The International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
  14. Brier, S. (1997):" Cyber-Semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and sign games in bio-semiotics". Conference paper from Semiotics Around the world: Synthesis in diversity: Fifth Congress of the IASS/AIS June 12-18, 1994; Berkeley, California. International Society for Semiotic Studies. Ed. J. Rauch and G.F. Carr Mounton de Gruynter, Berlin, New York.
  15. Brier, S. (1995):" Why documents and information are not easily accessible in the huge international information retrieval systems: an evaluation of the theory behind information retrieval, from a cybernetic, a semiotic and a language game point of view." Key-note address at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research and 2nd Orwellian symposium i Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, august 8-11.
  16. Brier, S. (1995):"Cyber-semiotics: On Autopoiesis, Code-duality and Sign Games in Bio- semiotics" in Cybernetics & Human Knowing Vol.3, no.1 pp. 3-14.
  17. Brier, S. (1996): "Cybersemiotics: A new interdisciplinary development applied to the problems of knowledge organisation and document retrieval in information Science" Journal of Documentation Vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 296-344.
  18. Brier, S. (1996): "From Second-order Cybernetics to Cybersemiotics: A Semiotic Re-entry into the Second-order Cybernetics of Heinz von Foerster", Systems Research Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 229-244, 1996.
  19. Brier, S. (1996): "The Necessity of a Theory of Signification and Meaning in Cybernetics and System Science", Proceeding of the Third European Congress on Systems Science, Rome, 1-4 Oktober 1996, Edizioni Kappa, Rom, pp. 693-697.
  20. Brier, S. (1996): "The Usefulness of Cybersemiotics in dealing with Problems of Knowledge Organization and Document Mediating Systems", Cybernetics: Quarterly Review of the International Association for Cybernetics, pp. 273-299.
  21. Brier, S. (1997): "Cyber-semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and signgames as vital aspects of bio-semiotics", pp. 913-916 in "Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity: Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the International Society for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley 1994", Ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr, Mounton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1997.
  22. Brier, S. (1997): "Biosemiotics and cybersemiotics: The integration of biosemiotics in a larger framework of self-organizing signifying systems", in Sankey, M.R., Gimate-Welsh. A. and Pellegino, P. (1997): Semiotics bridging Nature & Culture, VI'th International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Guadalejara, Mexico Juliom 13-18, 1997, p. 215, abstract.

 

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