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Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco G. Varela
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 42
D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
1980
The author defends (what he refers to as) "intensional realism" against sophisticated forms of instrumentalism, first, by elaborating a dispositional ontology for the physical world; second, by determining the necessary and sufficient conditions for the adequacy of scientific explanations; and third, by explicating the conception of scientific knowledge which is supported by this analysis. this work presents an alternative conceptual framework for understanding science which bears important affinites to the views of hacking, popper, and peirce.
