Biosemiotics – serie
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Codes of Life
The Rules of Macroevolution
Inbunden, 2007
2733 kr
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Building on a range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – this book draws on the expertise of leading names in the study of organic, mental and cultural codes brought together by the emerging discipline of biosemiotics.The book’s 18 chapters present a range …
Legacy for Living Systems
Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics
Inbunden, 2008
3061 kr
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Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology …
Essential Readings in Biosemiotics
Anthology and Commentary
Inbunden, 2010
3604 kr
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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 …
Life as Its Own Designer
Darwin's Origin and Western Thought
Av Anton Markoš, Filip Grygar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1642 kr
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It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they …
Semiotics of Animals in Culture
Zoosemiotics 2.0
Av Gianfranco Marrone, Dario Mangano
Häftad, 2018
1098 kr
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To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that …
Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies
Inbunden, 2019
1643 kr
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This monograph is about new perspective in animal studies methodology, by using concepts and tools from the field of semiotics. It proposes a reflexion on current challenges and issues in the ethology field, and introduces different semiotics – biosemiotics, zoosemiotics – as potential …
Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies
Häftad, 2020
1643 kr
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This monograph is about new perspective in animal studies methodology, by using concepts and tools from the field of semiotics. It proposes a reflexion on current challenges and issues in the ethology field, and introduces different semiotics – biosemiotics, zoosemiotics – as potential …
Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations
Inbunden, 2020
1970 kr
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This book develops Gregory Bateson’s ideas regarding “communication about relationship” in animals and human beings, and even nations. It bases itself on Bateson’s theory of relational communication, as he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals, birds, and human beings. This theory …
Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations
Häftad, 2021
1970 kr
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This book develops Gregory Bateson’s ideas regarding “communication about relationship” in animals and human beings, and even nations. It bases itself on Bateson’s theory of relational communication, as he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals, birds, and human beings. This theory …
Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Av Carlos Vidales, Søren Brier
Inbunden, 2021
1098 kr
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This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the …
Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Av Carlos Vidales, Søren Brier
Häftad, 2022
1098 kr
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This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the …
Food and Medicine
A Biosemiotic Perspective
Av Yogi Hale Hendlin, Jonathan Hope
Inbunden, 2021
1580 kr
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This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine. Drawing on the origins of semiotics in medicine, this collection proposes innovative ways of considering aliments and treatments. Considering the ever-evolving character of our understanding …
Food and Medicine
A Biosemiotic Perspective
Av Yogi Hale Hendlin, Jonathan Hope
Häftad, 2022
1355 kr
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This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine. Drawing on the origins of semiotics in medicine, this collection proposes innovative ways of considering aliments and treatments. Considering the ever-evolving character of our understanding …
Adolf Portmann
A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life
Inbunden, 2021
1970 kr
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This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann’s theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as “inwardness” and …
Adolf Portmann
A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life
Häftad, 2022
1970 kr
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This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann’s theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as “inwardness” and …
Biosemiotic Literary Criticism
Genesis and Prospectus
Inbunden, 2021
1560 kr
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This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, “nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature” (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary …
Biosemiotic Literary Criticism
Genesis and Prospectus
Häftad, 2022
1560 kr
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This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, “nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature” (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary …
Semiotic Agency
Science beyond Mechanism
Av Alexei Sharov, Morten Tønnessen
Inbunden, 2022
1316 kr
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This book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis …
Semiotic Agency
Science beyond Mechanism
Av Alexei Sharov, Morten Tønnessen
Häftad, 2023
1316 kr
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This book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis …
Nature of Living Being
From Distinguishing Distinctions to Ethics
Av Daniel Carlos Mayer-Foulkes
Inbunden, 2023
1316 kr
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This book proposes a bold idea. Living beings are distinguishing distinctions. Single cells and multicellular organisms maintain themselves distinct by drawing distinctions. This is what organisms are and what they do. From this starting point, key issues examined range across ontology, …
Nature of Living Being
From Distinguishing Distinctions to Ethics
Av Daniel Carlos Mayer-Foulkes
Häftad, 2025
1316 kr
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This book proposes a bold idea. Living beings are distinguishing distinctions. Single cells and multicellular organisms maintain themselves distinct by drawing distinctions. This is what organisms are and what they do. From this starting point, key issues examined range across ontology, …
From Life to Architecture, to Life
Av Tim Ireland
Inbunden, 2024
1425 kr
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The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to …
From Life to Architecture, to Life
Av Tim Ireland
Häftad, 2025
1467 kr
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The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to …
Organismal Agency
Biological Concepts and Their Philosophical Foundations
Inbunden, 2024
1425 kr
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This book explores the notion of organismal agency from the perspective of both philosophy and biology. The two sections of the book delve into parallel themes, including distinctions between organic and inorganic nature, self-organization, autonomy, self-presentation, memory, umwelt, and …
Organismal Agency
Biological Concepts and Their Philosophical Foundations
Häftad, 2025
1425 kr
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This book explores the notion of organismal agency from the perspective of both philosophy and biology. The two sections of the book delve into parallel themes, including distinctions between organic and inorganic nature, self-organization, autonomy, self-presentation, memory, umwelt, and …
Codes and Evolution
The Origin of Absolute Novelties
Inbunden, 2024
1425 kr
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This text builds upon the over 1500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals revealing that there are more than 200 biological codes in living systems. The author claims this experimental fact is bound to change biology forever. This book shows how this very discovery reveals that coding is a new …
Codes and Evolution
The Origin of Absolute Novelties
Häftad, 2025
1425 kr
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This text builds upon the over 1500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals revealing that there are more than 200 biological codes in living systems. The author claims this experimental fact is bound to change biology forever. This book shows how this very discovery reveals that coding is a new …
Aristotle on Meaning in the Living World
A Biosemiotic Perspective
Inbunden, 2025
1425 kr
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This book provides an examination of Aristotle's relevance to modern philosophy and science. It presents Aristotle’s corpus as a complex and comprehensive picturing of a sublunary world in which meaning is exhibited by and shared between “beings” (ousiai). This approach is mirrored in modern …
Culture Evolving
Bridging Life Sciences and Humanities
Av Jan Toman, Jan Havlíček m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1527 kr
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This volume examines how evolutionary principles can help us understand the dynamics of culture while acknowledging the risks of their uncritical application. Drawing on perspectives from the philosophy and history of science, anthropology, archaeology, behavioural science, and evolutionary …
Seeds of Forms and the Forms of Seeds
Narratives in Historiography and in Evolutionary Biology
Inbunden, 2026
1355 kr
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This monograph intertwines the two themes of historiography and evolutionary biology and shows that both activities are analogous in their practices; they are spinning stories about the past and thus constructing the world to suit the present of a given community as well as, if necessary, the …
