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METHODOLOGICAL ESSAYS OF
ZOOSEMIOTIC CONCERN
ANIMAL
ETHICS - Susan J. Armstrong, Editor
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GLOBAL
SEMIOTICS (1ST CHAPTER)- Thomas
Sebeok
I have always maintained that-at least within
the frame of academicsemiotics-it is wise to act locally, in speci¤c
terms, but to think in a grand,holistic manner.
LANGUAGE,
SEMIOTICS, COMMUNICATION - Honti,
Rita
Language is the type of semiosis, which has
been most closely examined, and, has served as a model for
considering other forms of semiosis. The study ofthe"species?universal"
attribute ofhumanity, language, is the subject matter of linguistics,
which is one of the most sophisticated, partially formalized
branches of semiotics...
SEMIOSIC
BODY-MIND (THE)- Jesper
Hoffmeyer
20th century life sciences have been
characterised by two major trends. One trend is molecular and
genetic reductionism. This trend is well known and need no further
comment. Beginning as an undercurrent to this trend, however,
another much less noticed but in the long run just as important
trend has gradually been unfolding: The semiotisation of nature.
WHAT
IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT? - Nagel,
Thomas
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body
problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions
of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong...
WHAT'S
IN A CLASSIFICATION? - R. I. M.
Dunbar
Our taxonomic classifications derive, by a
rather tortuous route, from the common-sense classifications of
everyday life.
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