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