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A recursive vision : ecological understanding and Gregory Bateson /
Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the deca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1995.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson
- A Note on Reference Style
- Introduction
- Bateson and the Environment
- Bateson and the Science of Ecology
- 'Ecological Understanding Must Be Ecological'
- Epistemology and Recursion
- Presentation of Ideas
- Chapter Outline
- Holism
- 1 The Youngest Bateson
- W.B. ... the Eminent Anti-Darwinist
- Like Father Like Son?
- Between Art and Science
- Fieldwork and Margaret Mead
- Naven: The Observer Observing
- Steps: Battling for an Epistemology
- Ecology: A 'Post-Political' Movement?Conclusion
- 2 A Theory of Consciousness
- Mutual Casual Connectedness
- The 'Logic' of Addiction
- Alcoholism and Control
- The 'Power' of Prayer
- Learning as Causality
- Epistemology and Social Power
- Some Difficulties of Interpretation
- A Theory of Consciousness
- Pattern and Gestalt
- Summary: Alternative Causality
- 3 The Map Is Not the Territory: Time, Change, and Survival
- Indeterminacy
- Field Theory: Whitehead and Lewin
- Time and Change
- Atomic Succession: Whitehead's Pattern of Events
- ""The Map Is Not the Territory""""'Time Binding': Mapping and Indexing""; ""How Mind Is Part of the System It Seeks to Explain""; ""Problems of Biperspectivism""; ""Mind and Information""; ""Adaptation and Survival""; ""4 Metaphors for Living Forms""; ""Ideas � 'My Fortification'""; ""Hopscotch � a Matrix of Ideas""; ""Radical Software""; ""The Family � a Circle and Its Presence""; ""Metalogues""; ""Working the Metaphor""; ""Parables: Stories for Evoking Gestalt""; ""5 Cybernetics � Janus of Modernity""; ""Negentropy and the Arrow of Time""
- ""Ross Ashby's Homeostat: Adaptive Feedback""""Redefining Noise and Error""; ""The Foundational Science""; ""A Brief Ceremony � 1984""; ""6 Communication and Its Embodiment""; ""The Body-Mind Problem""; ""Context as a Framing Device""; ""Coding: Analogue and Digital""; ""Codes as Rules""; ""Double Bind: The Implicit and the Explicit in Communicative Rules""; ""Redundancy and Metaphor""; ""7 Mind and Nature""; ""Animal and Interspecies Communication""; ""Evolutionary Coding""; ""Reflexiveness in Evolution""; ""'Time Grains'""; ""Darwinism versus Co-evolution""; ""The Turning Point""
- ""8 Recursion""""Difference � a Truly Psychological Concept""; ""Abduction as Qualitative Method""; ""Modularities""; ""Autopoiesis: The Bootstrapping of Form""; ""Self-Referencing Feedback""; ""Recursive Fittedness � a New Beginning""; ""Biological Autonomy""; ""9 The Pattern Which Connects""; ""Bateson and Environmental Activism""; ""'Blaming Our Silly Selves'""; ""Ecological Understanding � Ethics or Aesthetics?""; ""The Processes of Perception""; ""Perception as an Ecological Phenomenon""; ""Laws of Form: A Logic of Recursive Unity""; ""From Active Perception to Active Aesthetics""