Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life Is the Action of Signs - Couverture rigide

 
9781848166875: Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life Is the Action of Signs
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1848166877 ISBN 13 : 9781848166875
Editeur : Imperial College Press, 2011

Synopsis

This book presents programmatic texts on biosemiotics, written collectively by world leading scholars in the field (Deacon, Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, Markos, Pattee, Stjernfelt). In addition, the book includes chapters which focus closely on semiotic case studies (Bruni, Kotov, Maran, Neuman, Turovski).According to the central thesis of biosemiotics, sign processes characterise all living systems and the very nature of life, and their diverse phenomena can be best explained via the dynamics and typology of sign relations. The authors are therefore presenting a deeper view on biological evolution, intentionality of organisms, the role of communication in the living world and the nature of sign systems -- all topics which are described in this volume. This has important consequences on the methodology and epistemology of biology and study of life phenomena in general, which the authors aim to help the reader better understand.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book presents the programmatic texts of biosemiotics, written collectively by the world leading scholars in the field (Deacon, Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, MarkoA', Pattee, and Stjernfelt). In addition, the book also includes chapters on semiotic case studies (Bruni, Kotov, Maran, Neuman, and Turovski). According to the central thesis of this approach, the sign processes are the ones that characterise all living systems and the very nature of life, and its diverse phenomena can be best explained via the dynamics and typology of sign relations. This implies a new view on biological evolution, intentionality of organisms, the role of communication in the living world, and the nature of sign systems - topics described in the volume. This has also important consequences to the methodology and epistemology of biology and study of life phenomena in general.

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Éditeur
Imperial College Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1848166877
ISBN 13 
9781848166875
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
318
Éditeur
Kull Kalevi, Emmeche Claus
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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