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ESSAYS OF BIOSEMIOTIC CONTENTS
BIOSEMIOTICS
- Jesper
Hoffmeyer
Biosemiotics is not one among other biological
sub disciplines but rather constitutes a certain theoretical frame
for the study of biology
CODE-DUALITY
AND THE SEMIOTICS OF NATURE
- Jesper Hoffmeyer and Claus
Emmeche
In spite of a likely etymological relationship between morpholology and information the two areas occupy nearly antagonistic positions in modern biology
FROM
LANGUAGE TO NATURE -
Jesper Hoffmeyer and Claus Emmeche
The development of form in living organisms
continues to challenge biological research. The concept of
biological information encoded in the genetic program that controls
development forms a major part of the semiotic metaphor in biology...
ON
SEMIOSIS, UMWELT, AND SEMIOSPHERE -
Kalevi Kull
The term 'cognitive turn' in this context is
taken from psychological thinking a couple of decades ago, when the
prevailing behavioristic approach was to a great extent replaced by
another model of research, allowing methods and criteria which would
not be accepted by behaviorists as 'scientific'...
SEMIOTIC
PARADIGM IN THEORETICAL BIOLOGY -
Kalevi Kull
In search for a fundamental mechanism able to
create semiosis, we found that the mechanism of differential
reproduction inside the two-level self-reproductive system might
serve as such...
TAKING
THE SEMIOTIC TURN, OR HOW SIGNIFICANT PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY SHOULD
BE DONE - Claus
Emmeche
One big challenge I could think of is about
how to integrate research into the origin and evolution of complex
systems (physics, biophysics, molecular and evolutionary biology)
with research into the semiotic nature and performance of such
complex systems (biosemiotics, developmental psychology,
consciousness studies, philosophy of mind, etc.).
THE
SIGN
SCIENCE AND THE LIFE SCIENCE -
Thomas A. Sebeok
In the celebrated passage in which Saussure
referred to une science qui étudie la vie des signes au sein de la vie sociale,
the term science is, as a
rule, loosely, arguably, and, in my view, misleadingly rendered by
the English quasicognate "science"...
UMWELT
- John Deely
Umwelt, an apparently German term, has become
in fact a technical term within semiotics, and is also destined (such
is my guess) to become a term of general use in philosophy and
intellectual culture...
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