Series | Buch
Essential readings in biosemiotics
anthology and commentary
Abstrakt
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 and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau's Essential Readings in Biosemiotics has been designed as a single-source overview of the major works informing this new interdiscipline, and provides scholarly historical and analytical commentary on each of the texts presented. The first of its kind, this book constitutes a valuable resource to both bioscientists and to semioticians interested in this emerging new discipline, and can function as a primary textbook for students in biosemiotics, as well. Moreover, because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the "big questions' of cognition, meaning and evolutionary biology, this volume should be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cognitive science, theoretical biology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, communication studies or the history and philosophy of science.
Details | Inhaltsverzeichnis
an evolutionary history of biosemiotics
pp.1-77
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_1a semiotic theory of culture
pp.191-214
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_5its roots, proliferation and prospects
pp.217-236
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_6pp.237-255
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_7thought and language
pp.337-376
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_11steps toward a new paradigm
pp.377-413
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_12pp.417-443
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_13pp.445-462
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_14code-duality
pp.583-628
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_19a semiotic approach
pp.629-656
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_20an evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange
pp.697-729
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_22a new understanding of life
pp.751-795
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9650-1_24Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Ort: Dordrecht
Year: 2009
Seiten: 880
Series: Biosemiotics
Series volume: 3
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4020-9649-5
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4020-9650-1
Referenz:
Favareau Donald (2009) Essential readings in biosemiotics: anthology and commentary. Dordrecht, Springer.