Франциско Варела (исп. Francisco Javier Varela García, 7 сентября 1946, Сантьяго — 28 мая 2001, Париж) — чилийский биолог, философ и специалист в нейронауках, наиболее известный концепцией применения аутопоэзиса к биологии, разработанной совместно с Умберто Матурана.

Избранная библиография

• 1980 (with Humberto Maturana). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Boston: Reidel.
• 1979. Principles of Biological Autonomy. North-Holland.
• 1998 (1987) (with Humberto Maturana). The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Boston: Shambhala Press.
• 1991 (with Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. MIT Press.
• 1992 (with P. Bourgine, eds.). Towards a Practice of Autonomous Systems: The First European Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press.
• 1992 (with J. Hayward, eds.). Gentle Bridges: Dialogues Between the Cognitive Sciences and the Buddhist Tradition. Boston: Shambhala Press.
• 1993 (with D. Stein, eds.). Thinking About Biology: An Introduction to Theoretical Biology. Addison-Wesley, SFI Series on Complexity.
• 1997 (ed.). Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying. Boston: Wisdom Book.
• 1996-99. Invitation aux sciences cognitives. Paris: Seuil.
• 1999. Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom and Cognition. Stanford University Press.
• 1999 (with J. Shear, eds.). The View from Within: First-Person Methodologies in the Study of Consciousness. London: Imprint Academic.
• 1999 (with J. Petitot, B. Pachoud, and J-M. Roy, eds.). Naturalizing Phenomenology: Contemporary Issues in Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Stanford University Press.

См. также

• Феноменология
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