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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2009, 2009
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009 |
| Series: | Biosemiotics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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