Re: BHA: Critical realism and Luhmann

["John Mingers" <John.Mingers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan

I have written interpreting Maturana's autopoiesis in a critical
realist way.

I have also written about Luhmann from an at least implicit critical
realist perspective.

See the following:

Mingers, J., Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of
Autopoiesis, Plenum Press, New York., 1995.  Especially chs 7, 8, 9

Mingers, J., "Can social systems be autopoietic? Assessing Luhman's
social theory," Sociological Review, 50, 2, (2002), 278-299.

Mingers, J., "A critical evaluation of Maturana's constructivist family
therapy," Systems Practice, 10, 2, (1997), 137-151.

Mingers, J., "Information, meaning and communication: an autopoietic
approach to linking the social and individual," Cybernetics and Human
Knowing, 6, 4, (1999), 25-42.

Mingers, J., "Observing organizations: An evaluation of Luhmann's
theory of organizations," In Autopoietic Organization Theory: Drawing on
Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective, T. Hernes and T. Bakken
(Ed.), Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen, 2002,

Mingers, J, "Synthesising constructivism and critical realism:  towards
critical pluralism," In World Views and the Problem of Synthesis, E.
Mathijs, J. Van der Veken and H. Van Belle (Ed.), Kluwer Academic,
Amsterdam, 1999, 187-204.

John



Dr. John Mingers
Professor of OR and Systems
 Warwick Business School
 Warwick University
 Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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>>> r.conlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 07 May 2002 16:20:56 >>>
Does anyone know of critical realist commentary on Niklas Luhmann's
sociology,
or on notions of autopoiesis, self-reference, systems theory, etc.?
Cheers
Ryan

'For me, life exists only insofar as I can theorize it.'
Slavoj Zizek

Ryan Conlon
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YL
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