Varela, Francisco J.

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Author documents cited by Kairos documents

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• [2018]  Laying Down a Path in Walking. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, MIT, 2018 (Varela, Francisco J. / Thompson, Evan / Rosch, Eleanor)
• [2003]  On Becoming Aware: a pragmatics of experiencing. (Advances in Consciousness Research, 43), John Benjamins, 2003
  
  Michael R. Dewey. Everything you've always wanted to know about meta-gaming (but were to afraid to ask) [text] (Depraz, Natalie / Varela, Francisco J. / Vermersch, Pierre)
• [2001]  Radical Embodiment: neural dynamics and consciousness. Trends in cognitive sciences, 5(10), 2001, pp. 418-425 (Thompson, E. / Varela, Francisco J.)
• [2001]  Gentle Bridges: conversations with the Dalai Lama on the sciences of mind. Shambhala, 2001 (Hayward, Jeremy W. / Varela, Francisco J.)
• [2000]  The Gesture of Awareness: an account of its structural dynamics. In: M. Velmans (Ed.), Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness, John Benjamins, 2000, pp.121-136 (Depraz, N. / Varela, F. / Vermersch, P.)
• [1999]  The View from Within: first-person methods in the study of consciousness. Imprint Academic, London, 1999 (Varela, Francisco / Shear, J.)
• [1999]  The Gesture of Awareness: an account of its structural dynamics. In: On Becoming Aware: The pragmatics of experiencing by N.Depraz, F.Varela and P.Vermersch. In: M Velmans (Ed.). Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness. Amsterdam, Benjamin, 1999 (Varela, Francisco / Depraz, N. / Vermersch, P.)
• [1999]  Present-Time Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1999, 6, 2-3, 111-140
• [1999]  Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition. Stanford University Press, 1999
• [1998]  The Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. Shambhala Press, 1998 (Varela, Francisco / Maturana, Humberto)
• [1997]  The specious present: a neurophenomenology of time consciousness. In: J.Petitot, F.J.Varela, J.-M. Roy and B.Pachoud (Eds.), Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Stanford University Press, 1997
• [1997]  Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying: an exploration of consciousness with the Dalai Lama. Wisdom Books, 1997
• [1997]  Laying Down a Path in Walking: essays on enactive cognition.New York, Zone Books/MIT Press, 1997
• [1992]  Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. Shambhala, 1992 (Maturana, Humberto R. / Varela, Francisco)
• [1992]  The Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. Shambhala, 1992 [reviews] (Maturana, Humberto R. / Varela, Francisco J.)
• [1992]  The Embodied Mind: cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, 1992 (Varela, Francisco / Thompson, Evan / Rosch, Eleanor)
• [1991]  The Embodied Mind. MIT Press, 1991
• [1988]  The Tree of Knowledge. Shambala, 1988 (Maturana, H. / Varela, F.)
• [1988]  Laying Down a Path in Walking: a biologist's look at a new biology and its ethics. In: Stanislav Grof (Ed.), Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution. SUNY Press, 1988
• [1987]  The Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. Shambhala, 1987 (Maturana, Humberto / Varela, Francisco)
• [1987]  Laying down a path in walking. In: W. Thompson (Ed.), Gaia: A way of knowing. Lindisfarne Press, 1987
• [1984]  The Creative Circle: sketches on the natural history of circularity. In: Paul Watzlavick (Ed.), The Invented Reality. Norton Publishing, 1984.
• [1980]  Form Dynamics. J. Soc. Biol. Structures 3, 1980, pp. 171-206 (Kauffman, Louis H. / Varela, Francisco J.)
• [1980]  Autopoiesis and Cognition: the realization of the living. Reidel, 1980 (Varela, Francisco / Maturana, Humberto)
• [1979]  The extended calculus of indications interpreted as a three-valued logic. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 20, 1979, 1, 141--146. [text]
• [1979]  Systems and distinctions: Duality and complementarity. International Journal of General Systems, 5, 1979, 1, pp. 31-43 (Goguen, J. A. / Varela, Francisco)
• [1979]  Autopoiesis and Cognition: the realization of the living. Reidel, 1979 (Maturana, Humberto / Varela, Francisco)
• [1975]  A Calculus for Self-reference. International Journal of General Systems, 2, 1975, pp. 15-24. [text]
• [1974]  Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model, Biosystems, 5, 1974, 4, pp.187-196 (Varela, Francisco / Maturana, H. R. / Uribe, R.)
• [1973]  Autopoiesis and Cognition: the realization of the living. Reidel, 1973 (Maturana, Humberto / Varela, Francisco)
• [1972]  Autopoiesis and Cognition: the realization of the living. Reidel. 1972 (Maturana, Humberto R. / Varela, Francisco J.)

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