Towards A Semiotic Biology: Life Is The Action Of Signs
Life Is the Action of Signs
Published on 10. June 2011
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-1-84816-687-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents programmatic texts on biosemiotics, written collectively by world leading scholars in the field (Deacon, Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, Markos, Pattee, Stjernfelt). In addition, the book includes chapters which focus closely on semiotic case studies (Bruni, Kotov, Maran, Neuman, Turovski).According to the central thesis of biosemiotics, sign processes characterise all living systems and the very nature of life, and their diverse phenomena can be best explained via the dynamics and typology of sign relations. The authors are therefore presenting a deeper view on biological evolution, intentionality of organisms, the role of communication in the living world and the nature of sign systems - all topics which are described in this volume. This has important consequences on the methodology and epistemology of biology and study of life phenomena in general, which the authors aim to help the reader better understand.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Semioticians, biologists and those interested in the philosophy of science.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
613 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84816-687-5 (9781848166875)
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Content
Why Biosemiotics? An Introduction to Our View on the Biology of Life Itself (K Kull et al.); Biosemiotic Approach: General Principles: Theses on Biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a Theoretical Biology (K Kull et al.); Biology is Immature Biosemiotics (J Hoffmeyer); Biosemiotic Research Questions (K Kull et al.); Organism and Body: The Semiotics of Emergent Levels of Life (C Emmeche); Life is Many, and Sign is Essentially Plural: On the Methodology of Biosemiotics (K Kull); Applications: The Need for Impression in the Semiotics of Animal Freedom (A Turovski); The Multitrophic Plant-Herbivore-Parasitoid-Pathogen System: A Biosemiotic Perspective (L Bruni); Structural and Semiotic Aspects of Biological Mimicry (T Maran); Biosphere and Semiosphere (K Kotov & K Kull); Why do we Need Signs in Biology? (Y Neuman); Conversations: Between Physics and Semiotics (H Pattee & K Kull); A Roundtable on Biosemiotics (C Emmeche et al.); Theories of Signs and Meaning: Views from Copenhagen and Tartu (J Hoffmeyer & K Kull).