Peirce and Biosemiotics A Guess at the Riddle of Life
This volume discusses the importance of Peirce´s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic part of a complex architectonic philosophy that includes mathem...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Biosemiotics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; V. Romanini, E. Fernández
- 1. The Intelligible Universe; N. Houser
- 2. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce’s Objective Idealism; I.A. Ibri
- 3. Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics; R. Lane
- 4. Peircean Habits, Broken Symmetries, and Biosemiotics; E. Fernández
- 5. Semeiotic Causation and the Breath of Life; M. Hulswit, V. Romanini
- 6. The Ineffable, the Individual and the Intelligible: Peircean Reflections on the Innate Ingenuity of the Human Animal; V. Colapietro
- 7. Instinct and Abduction in the Peircean Informational Perspective: Contributions to Biosemiotics; L.F. Barbosa da Silveira, M.E. Quilici Gonzalez
- 8. The Life of Symbols and Other Legisigns: More than a mere Metaphor?; W. Nöth
- 9. Signs without Minds; J. Collier
- 10. Dicent Symbols and Proto-propositions in Biological Mimicry; J. Queiroz
- 11. Semeiosis as a Living Process; V. Romanini
- List of Authors. References. Index