Essential Readings in Biosemiotics Anthology and Commentary

Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution...

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Autor principal: Favareau, Donald (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 2009.
Colección:Biosemiotics ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: An Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics
  • Introduction: An Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics
  • Sebeok’s Precursors and Influences
  • The Theory of Meaning
  • The Logic of Signs
  • Excerpts from Signs, Language and Behavior
  • Excerpts from Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
  • The Biosemiotic Project of Thomas A. Sebeok
  • Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation and Prospects
  • The Clever Hans Phenomenon from an Animal Psychologist’s Point of View
  • Phytosemiotics
  • Endosemiosis
  • Signs and Codes in Immunology
  • From Animal to Man: Thought and Language
  • A Semiotic Perspective on the Sciences: Steps Toward a New Paradigm
  • Independent Approaches to Biosemiotics
  • Theoretical Biology on Its Way to Biosemiotics
  • Laws of Symbolic Mediation in the Dynamics of Self and Personality
  • Concepts of Molecular Biosemiotics
  • Form, Substance and Difference
  • The Physics and Metaphysics of Biosemiotics
  • Excerpts from The Symbolic Species
  • The Contemporary Interdiscipline of Biosemiotics
  • The Semiotics of Nature: Code-Duality
  • Information and Semiosis in Living Systems: A Semiotic Approach
  • Excerpts from Readers of the Book of Life
  • The Cybersemiotic Model of Communication: An Evolutionary View on the Threshold between Semiosis and Informational Exchange
  • Excerpts from The Logos of the Bios
  • Biosemiotics: A New Understanding of Life.