CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING

Contents:

Søren Brier: Foreword Full Text

Claus Emmeche: Defining life as a semiotic phenomenon Abstract

David J. Depew & Bruce H. Weber: What Does Natural Selection Have to Be like Abstract

Jesper Hoffmeyer: Surfaces Inside Surfaces Abstract

Robert Vallée: Cognition et Système, Essai d'Épistémo-praxéologie Abstract

Robert Vallée: An Introduction to "Epistemo-praxiology" Abstract

Columns

Ranulph Glanville: A (Cybernetic) Musing: Varieties of Variety? Full Text

Louis H. Kauffman: Virtual Logic - The Calculus of Indications Full Text

Reviews

Maj-Britt Rosenkilde, Anja Abel Sørensen, Christine Nordentoft and Søren Brier: Review of International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics Full Text

Axel Randrup: Whispering Pond Full Text

Mariaelena Bartesaghi: "The Therapy of Dialogical Possibility" Full Text

Cognition et Système, Essai d´Épistémo-praxéologie

Robert Vallée has provided the journal with an English summary of his French book. We bring it here partly as an orientation and overview and partly because it serves well as an introduction to his paper. It functions as a perspectivising abstract.