K Werner
Biographic Data
| ID | 70979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Werner |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Werner |
| SIGNATURE | WERNER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8947-3722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who Asks Questions and Who Benefits from Answers: Understanding Institutions in Terms of Social Epistemic Dependencies
The paper develops the idea that institutions are enablers . However, they do not only enable individuals and collectives to achieve their goals; first and foremost, they enable individuals and collectives to have a goal, to select and recognize certain possible states of affairs as targets of action , and as a result, to have a demand – especially a demand for further institutions. I make the case that properly functioning institutions are dedic…
Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms
This paper argues that institutions are higher-level autonomous systems enacted by patterns of participatory sense-making. Therefore, unlike in the standard equilibrium theory, institutions are not themselves thought of as behavioural patterns. Instead, they are problem domains that these patterns have brought forth. Moreover, these are not merely any patterns, but only those devoted to maintaining a specific strategy of problem solving, called t…
The problem of presentations: How it is that one object is perceptually given in multiple ways
Cognitive confinement: Theoretical considerations on the construction of a cognitive niche, and on how it can go wrong
Cognitive Confinement, Embodied Sense-Making, and the (De)Colonization of Knowledge
This paper posits the concept of cognitive confinement as a useful tool for understanding the idea of decolonization of knowledge and the opposite notion of epistemic colonization. For the sake of the mentioned goal, the paper places the discourse on epistemic (de)colonization within the context of a paradigm emerging in the cognitive sciences, referred to as embodied cognition. Cognitive confinement is understood here as a pathological situation…
Enactment and construction of the cognitive niche: Toward an ontology of the mind-world connection
The paper discusses the concept of the cognitive niche and distinguishes the latter from the metabolic niche. By using these posits I unpack certain ideas that are crucial for the enactivist movement, especially for its original formulation proposed by Varela, Thompson and Rosh. Drawing on the ontology of location, boundaries, and parthood, I argue that enacting the world can be seen as the process of cognitive niche construction. Moreover, it tu…
Metaphilosophy of Mind: How Do Minds Investigate Minds? Refutation of the Theocentric View
I shall propose metaphilosophy of mind as the philosophy of mind investigating mind. That is to say, I pose the question of how knowledge of mind provided by cognitive science, broadly construed, is constrained by the epistemic position of the knower, i.e. by the very fact that it is undertaken by a mind. Here I would like to propose a minimal framework, based on two distinctions: (i) the standard one between empirical and conceptual analysis; (i…
Accroître et optimiser la valeur des services publics locaux. Le transfert d'une expérience de quelques villes américaines
Kent Hudson, Antonin Stéphany, Klaus Werner Augmenting and optimising the value of local services The contribution of cities to local development In large American cities, coordinating local public services has proven effective. One of the primary objectives has been to improve the internal circulation of information as well as its dissemination to users. Exactly how services should be redefined to facilitate this convergence is the next challeng…
Appendix
Session IV: The future: Inheritance and acquisitions: East German collections and their future
Technical and biological recultivation and development of exhausted open cast mines in the German Democratic Republic
Enactment and construction of the cognitive niche: Toward an ontology of the mind-world connection
The paper discusses the concept of the cognitive niche and distinguishes the latter from the metabolic niche. By using these posits I unpack certain ideas that are crucial for the enactivist movement, especially for its original formulation proposed by Varela, Thompson and Rosh. Drawing on the ontology of location, boundaries, and parthood, I argue that enacting the world can be seen as the process of cognitive niche construction. Moreover, it tu…
Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms
This paper argues that institutions are higher-level autonomous systems enacted by patterns of participatory sense-making. Therefore, unlike in the standard equilibrium theory, institutions are not themselves thought of as behavioural patterns. Instead, they are problem domains that these patterns have brought forth. Moreover, these are not merely any patterns, but only those devoted to maintaining a specific strategy of problem solving, called t…
Cognitive confinement: Theoretical considerations on the construction of a cognitive niche, and on how it can go wrong
Technical and biological recultivation and development of exhausted open cast mines in the German Democratic Republic
Appendix
Session IV: The future: Inheritance and acquisitions: East German collections and their future
Accroître et optimiser la valeur des services publics locaux. Le transfert d'une expérience de quelques villes américaines
Kent Hudson, Antonin Stéphany, Klaus Werner Augmenting and optimising the value of local services The contribution of cities to local development In large American cities, coordinating local public services has proven effective. One of the primary objectives has been to improve the internal circulation of information as well as its dissemination to users. Exactly how services should be redefined to facilitate this convergence is the next challeng…
Metaphilosophy of Mind: How Do Minds Investigate Minds? Refutation of the Theocentric View
I shall propose metaphilosophy of mind as the philosophy of mind investigating mind. That is to say, I pose the question of how knowledge of mind provided by cognitive science, broadly construed, is constrained by the epistemic position of the knower, i.e. by the very fact that it is undertaken by a mind. Here I would like to propose a minimal framework, based on two distinctions: (i) the standard one between empirical and conceptual analysis; (i…
Cognitive Confinement, Embodied Sense-Making, and the (De)Colonization of Knowledge
This paper posits the concept of cognitive confinement as a useful tool for understanding the idea of decolonization of knowledge and the opposite notion of epistemic colonization. For the sake of the mentioned goal, the paper places the discourse on epistemic (de)colonization within the context of a paradigm emerging in the cognitive sciences, referred to as embodied cognition. Cognitive confinement is understood here as a pathological situation…
Enactment and construction of the cognitive niche: Toward an ontology of the mind-world connection
The paper discusses the concept of the cognitive niche and distinguishes the latter from the metabolic niche. By using these posits I unpack certain ideas that are crucial for the enactivist movement, especially for its original formulation proposed by Varela, Thompson and Rosh. Drawing on the ontology of location, boundaries, and parthood, I argue that enacting the world can be seen as the process of cognitive niche construction. Moreover, it tu…
Cognitive confinement: Theoretical considerations on the construction of a cognitive niche, and on how it can go wrong
The problem of presentations: How it is that one object is perceptually given in multiple ways
Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms
This paper argues that institutions are higher-level autonomous systems enacted by patterns of participatory sense-making. Therefore, unlike in the standard equilibrium theory, institutions are not themselves thought of as behavioural patterns. Instead, they are problem domains that these patterns have brought forth. Moreover, these are not merely any patterns, but only those devoted to maintaining a specific strategy of problem solving, called t…
Who Asks Questions and Who Benefits from Answers: Understanding Institutions in Terms of Social Epistemic Dependencies
The paper develops the idea that institutions are enablers . However, they do not only enable individuals and collectives to achieve their goals; first and foremost, they enable individuals and collectives to have a goal, to select and recognize certain possible states of affairs as targets of action , and as a result, to have a demand – especially a demand for further institutions. I make the case that properly functioning institutions are dedic…
Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophy of science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Biology (4 works)