... that freedom is an attribute of life. biosemiotics free choice habit knowledge possibilities recognition theory of evolution umwelt External stimuli [...] approach the animal in the form of questions (Jakob von Uexküll, 1992 [1934]: 323). Life is not a sequence of cause and effect...

... was that there is a ‘transmission’ of properties which results in fact in ‘transmission of certain genes’. transmission introgression evolution biosemiotics information Transmission is a basic process in biology and evolution, as it communicates different biological entities within and across hierarchical levels (from genes...

... Immanuel Anthropology Locke John Müller Max Nussbaum Martha C Rawls John animal communication biosemiotics Darwin Charles Descartes René Heidegger Martin Lacan Jacques Levinas Emmanuel anthropocentrism Emmeche Claus horses Kohn Eduardo Peirce C S semiotics Sewell Anna Black Beauty Defoe...

... for rationality and/or conscious choice which western scientists and philosophers have consistently demanded for ‘intelligence’ in animal behavior. Biosemiotics supports Bateson’s double description, or code-duality (both analog and digital), as being required at the level of cellular response...

... on to show how this work is related to Philip Lieberman’s work in the cognitive neuroscience of language evolution and behavior, and also the new interdisciplinary field of biosemiotics. Concluding with an account of Merleau-Ponty’s description of literature and the other arts as the human voicing...

... Sebeok Thomas biosemiotics Hoffmeyer Jesper Peirce Charles Sanders embodiment chiasmic ontology flesh Freud Sigmund man animality intertwining semiotic emergence Smith Adam Wolfe Cary zoosemiotics Nature lectures Phenomenology of Perception wild being Logos zoosemiotics biosemiotics...

... in the human dwelling can people fully comprehend them. It examines Jakob von Uexküll’s research in biosemiotics where he develops a line of inquiry into an animal’s sense of surroundings, something that is close to animal phenomenology. It analyzes the works of Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, which...

... (Cusa). In Part II I take this two- dimensional picture of human culture and extend it backwards into a third dimension of natural depth . I begin by expounding the biosemiotics of Poinsot, Aquinas, and Cusa to show how semiosis extends beyond the human domain to the whole biological order. I then turn...

... organization autogenic system autocell embryogenesis evolution natural selection replicator self-organization thermodynamics far-from-equilibrium biosemiotics teleology dynamical system artificial-life Machines are designed artifacts, and as such they are the physical exemplars of abstract...

... peoples moral badness whales Galgut Elisa non-human culture biosemiotics constitutive value intrinsic value objective value value theory thick concept Dugong Torres Strait So far, I have focused on nature’s value for us—that is to say, the value it has because of the contributions it makes...

..., critical plant studies, biosemiotics, and systems theory, the book puts canonical publications by figures such as Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Eduard Hanslick in conversation with more recent thinkers including Elizabeth Grosz, Michael Marder, Donna Haraway, and Eduardo...

... Trinitarian theology Deacon Terrence Kohn Eduardo Peirce C S nature and culture semiotics biosemiotics Bruno Latour evolution metaphysics of participation matter book of Genesis C. S. Peirce medieval philosophy ‘dust thou art’, Adam is told in the book of Genesis, ‘and unto dust shalt...

.... At first glance the prospect of 155 physiosemiosis seems deeply implausible. Even if we grant the biosemiotic claim that all living things possess the power of semiosis, how could it possibly be the case that nonliving things might communicate or interpret anything? I will propose a (as far as I know...

...: that of neurotransmitters and that of the immune system. We will also examine the approach of biosemiotics and the processual approach, both of which differ from our own in this book, bearing in mind the philosophical question regarding what entities and processes represent in science. To answer the question “What is life...

...This chapter provides (1) a brief account of Peirce’s own statements on biological issues; (2) a short account of the usage of Peirce’s ideas in semiotic biology, (a) before 1990 and (b) after 1990; and (3) a brief review of points that have appeared in biosemiotic literature as critical...

... characteristic or quality. ecology Great Story host property Malabou Catherine narrative Serres Michel Badiou Alain Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Meillassoux Quentin narrative identity anthropocentrism Aristotle animism Descartes René Latour Bruno biosemiotics correlationism epigenesis factiality...

...’ characteristics are also apparent in the world of living systems, enabling species to co-evolve in a mutually supportive manner—unlike natural selection. One of his legacies is biosemiotics, which focuses on the ability of all organisms and all cells to respond to patterns, even in microorganisms like bacteria...

..., especially among apes. It closes by examining his view that literature and the other arts are a distinctively human manifestation of the sedimentation of experience produced by all life forms on the planet. Here he anticipated the findings of biosemiotics....

... to bear on recent affect theory, show it to be often inadequate in its use of key concepts. This biosemiotic analysis, then, indicates three directions forward: first, toward an adjustment of certain claims of object-oriented philosophers sometimes allied to the affect theorists; second, toward...

... and the sciences and discusses the book’s indebtedness to the theory and philosophy of embodied cognition, systems theory, biosemiotics, animal studies and critical plant studies, and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. The Introduction summarizes the six chapters and positions the book with respect...