Essential readings in biosemiotics : anthology and commentary /
Biosemiotics Essential readings in
Donald Favareau.
- xvii, 880 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Biosemiotics ; v. 3 .
- Biosemiotics ; v. 3. .
Outgrowth of the Sixth Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, held in Salzburg, Austria, in 2006. Cf. Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 797-871) and index.
The theory of meaning / Jakob von Uexküll -- The logic of signs / Charles Sanders Peirce -- Excerpts from Signs, language and behavior / Charles Morris -- Excerpts from Universe of the mind : a semiotic theory of culture / Juri Mikhajlovič Lotman -- Biosemiotics : its roots, proliferation and prospects / Thomas A. Sebeok -- The Clever Hans phenomenon from an animal psychologist's point of view / Heini K.P. Hediger -- Phytosemiotics / Martin Krampen -- Endosemiosis / Thure von Uexküll, Werner Geigges, and Jörg Herrmann -- Signs and codes in immunology / Giorgio Prodi -- From animal to man : thought and language / René Thom -- A semiotic perspective on the sciences : steps toward a new paradigm / Myrdene Anderson, John Deely, Martin Krampen , Joseph Ransdell, Thomas A. Sebeok, and Thure von Uexküll -- Theoretical biology on its way to biosemiotics / Kalevi Kull -- Laws of symbolic mediation in the dynamics of self and personality / Friedrich S. Rothschild -- Concepts of molecular biosemiotics / Marcel Florkin -- Form, substance and difference / Gregory Bateson -- The physics and metaphysics of biosemiotics / Howard H. Pattee -- Excerpts from The symbolic species / Terrence Deacon -- The semiotics of nature : code-duality / Jesper Hoffmeyer -- Information and semiosis in living systems : a semiotic approach / Claus Emmeche, João Queiroz, and Charbel El-Hani -- Excerpts from Readers of the book of life / Anton Markoš -- The cybersemiotic model of communication : an evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange / Søren Brier -- Excerpts from The logos of the bios / Günther Witzany -- Biosemiotics : a new understanding of life / Marcello Barbieri.