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"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book.
Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical
implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we
create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general
audience as well as for students, scholars, and scientists and abundantly illustrated
with examples from biology, linguistics, and social and cultural phenomena, this
revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela, in which he discusses
the effect the book has had in the five years since its first publication.
Humberto R. Maturana, Ph.D., is a biologist at the University
of Chile. He is also co-author with Dr. Varela of Autopoeisis and Cognition:
The Realization of the Living. Francesco J. Varela,
Ph.D., is Fondation de France Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology
at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Institute of Neuroscience of Paris. He is also
the author of Principles of Biological Autonomy. |
