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Giorgio Bertini
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What to know about anxiety
Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, when a person regularly feels disproportionate levels of anxiety, it might become a medical disorder. Anxiety disorders form a category of mental health diagnoses that lead to excessive nervousness, fear, apprehension, … Continue reading
Autopoietic Systems, Not Corporate Actors: A Sketch of Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Organisations
Niklas Luhmann’s sociological systems theory sees in an organisation neither a group of acting individuals nor a single corporative actor, but instead a social system. For Luhmann, a social system is a closed network of communication processes that recursively engender … Continue reading
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Tagged autopoiesis, autopoietic systems, luhmann
Organisms, activity, and being: on the substance of process ontology
According to contemporary ‘process ontology’, organisms are best conceptualised as spatio-temporally extended entities whose mereological composition is fundamentally contingent and whose essence consists in changeability. In contrast to the Aristotelian precepts of classical ‘substance ontology’, from the four-dimensional perspective of … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Biology, Ontology, Organisms
Tagged autopoiesis, biology, ontology, Organisms
Autopoiesis, biological autonomy and the process view of life
In recent years, an increasing number of theoretical biologists and philosophers of biology have been opposing reductionist research agendas by appealing to the concept of biological autonomy which draws on the older concept of autopoiesis. In my paper, I investigate … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis
Tagged autopoiesis
Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis
Anthropology has come to exhibit a certain ethical self-consciousness, a certain ethical anxiety, which the immediate heirs of Franz Boas would hardly have countenanced, perhaps hardly have under- stood. It emerged with the protests of the 1960s and had its earliest collective voice in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Autopoiesis, Ethics, Foucault
Tagged anthropology, autopoiesis, ethics, foucault
Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology
Current sociobiology is in theoretical disarray, with a diversity of frameworks that are poorly related to each other. Part of the problem is a reluctance to revisit the pivotal events that took place during the 1960s, including the rejection of group selection … Continue reading
Posted in Sociobiology
Tagged sociobiology
Genes, Mind, And Culture: The Coevolutionary Process
A classic on Human Sociobiology, Genes, Mind, and Culture introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. In this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Evolution, Mind, Sociobiology
Tagged culture, evolution, mind, sociobiology
Collective intentionality: A basic and early component of moral evolution
Michael Tomasello’s account of moral evolution includes both a synthesis of extensive experimental work done on humans and chimpanzees on their potential for perspective-taking and helpful, altruistic generosity and a major emphasis on “collective intentionality” as an important component of … Continue reading
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Systems Intelligence in Leadership and Everyday Life
The Systems Intelligence approach that we have developed with a number of associates and students in the course of the past five years at Helsinki University of Technology, offers a major opening for the understanding of leadership. The perspective is rich in … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Swarm intelligence
Tagged leadership, swarm intelligence
Emotional Intelligence in Teachers’ Activities
Emotional intelligence (EQ) development is becoming a more important issue among such significant factors as competence and efficiency due to the constant and rapid social transformations, new challenges, high social norms, and setting high professional standards. The ability to control … Continue reading
Posted in Emotional intelligence, Teachers
Tagged emotional intelligence, teachers
