Niklas Luhmann and the Sociological Turn in Constructivism

Alexander Riegler & Armin Scholl

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Between Realism and Constructivism? Luhmann’s Ambivalent Epistemological Standpoint

Armin Scholl

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Who Observes? An Appropriate Theory of Observation is in Demand (Open Peer Commentary)

Heike Egner

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What Exists between Realism and Constructivism? (Open Peer Commentary)

Armin Nassehi

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Author’s Response: What Constructivism Does not Say (Open Peer Commentary)

Armin Scholl

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Luhmann and the Constructivist Heritage: A Critical Reflection

Eva Buchinger

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A Circular Comment on Luhmann as a Question Generator (Open Peer Commentary)

Karl H. Müller

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On Reading and Critiquing Luhmann (Open Peer Commentary)

Bernard Scott

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Luhmann’s Legacy: Illuminating Constructivism, or Ill-Luhmann-ized Constructs? (Open Peer Commentary)

Randall Whitaker

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Author’s Response: Adoption Strategies and Applicability of Luhmann’s Approach (Open Peer Commentary)

Eva Buchinger

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Observing Environments

Hugo F. Alrøe & Egon Noe

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The Construction of Embodied Agency: The Other Side of the System–Environment Coin (Open Peer Commentary)

Tom Ziemke

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Multiple Environments!? (Open Peer Commentary)

Karl-Heinz Simon

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The Complexity of Environment in Social Systems Theory (Open Peer Commentary)

Bernhard Freyer & Rebecca Louise Paxton

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Authors’ Response: Systems, Environments, and the Body (Open Peer Commentary)

Hugo F. Alrøe & Egon Noe

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Making Sense and Meaning: On the Role of Communication and Culture in the Reproduction of Social Systems

Raivo Palmaru

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Comparing Incomparability: The Functional Distinction between Operation and Identity (Open Peer Commentary)

Tino G. K. Meitz

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Why Culture? (Open Peer Commentary)

Martin Zierold

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Author’s Response: Culture Matters (Open Peer Commentary)

Raivo Palmaru

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Radical Constructivism and Radical Constructedness: Luhmann’s Sociology of Semantics, Organizations, and Self-Organization

Loet Leydesdorff

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Symbolically Generalized Communication Media: A Category Mistake? (Open Peer Commentary)

Kate Distin

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Some Reflections on Meaning (Open Peer Commentary)

Roger Harnden

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Author’s Response: The Continuous Reconstruction of a Pluralistic Society as an Order of Expectations (Open Peer Commentary)

Loet Leydesdorff

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Communication Emerging? On Simulating Structural Coupling in Multiple Contingency

Manfred Füllsack

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Is Communication Emerging or Sui Generis? (Open Peer Commentary)

Loet Leydesdorff

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Communication Without Emergence? (Open Peer Commentary)

Thomas Kron & Pascal Berger

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Author’s Response: Systems as Realities Sui Generis with Eigenbehavior? (Open Peer Commentary)

Manfred Füllsack

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Regular Section

Constructivist Criteria for Organising and Designing Educational Research: How Might an Educational Research Inquiry Be Judged from a Constructivist Perspective?

Sandra Joy Kemp

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The Game of Fictional Mathematics. Review of “Mathematics and Reality” by Mary Leng

Joachim Frans

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Me, Music, and I: Embodied and Enactive Cognition meets Music. Review of “Music and Consciousness” edited by David and Erik Clarke

Jakub Ryszard Matyja

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Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches

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