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The circle and the maze: two images of ecosemiotics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article compares the work of Jakob von Uexküll and Charles S. Peirce to elucidate two contrasting yet connected images of ecosemiotics. The intent is not simply to oppose their work, but to explore a tension which has implications for the ethical ...
Clements, Matthew
core   +2 more sources

From cause and effect to causes and effects

open access: yesJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 296-308, March 2024.
Abstract It is now—at least loosely—acknowledged that most health and clinical outcomes are influenced by different interacting causes. Surprisingly, medical research studies are nearly universally designed to study—usually in a binary way—the effect of a single cause.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, James A. Marcum
wiley   +1 more source

Gatherings in Biosemiotics 24: Bloemfontein, South Africa 2024

open access: yesSign Systems Studies
Gatherings in Biosemiotics 24: Bloemfontein, South Africa ...
Xany Jansen Van Vuuren, Kobus Marais
doaj   +1 more source

Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2019
Theory change is a slow, tortuous process. Problems associated with how we communicate ideas and how these ideas are received by our peers become catalysts for change in how we ourselves perceive and sanction what the discipline is capable of doing. Some
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera
doaj   +1 more source

From the Logic of Science to the Logic of the Living [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Biosemiotics belongs to a class of approaches that provide mental models of life since it applies some semiotic concepts in the explanation of natural phenomena. Such approaches are typically open to anthropomorphic errors.
Vehkavaara, Tommi
core  

Quo Vadis, Biosemiotics?

open access: yesLinguistic Frontiers, 2023
Abstract This is a review of the recently published collective monograph Approaches to Biosemiotics by Rodríguez and Coca (eds.). The publication can be used as a window into the current trends in the research area of biosemiotics, especially in the connection with the social sciences.
Barbora Jurková   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Observing Environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
> Context • Society is faced with “wicked” problems of environmental sustainability, which are inherently multiperspectival, and there is a need for explicitly constructivist and perspectivist theories to address them.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
core  

The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis

open access: yesSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2015
This article derives a notion of adaptation as a semiotic process from the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer and the Copenhagen-Tartu school of biosemiotics, suggesting it as way of considering fictional writing on genetics and evolution both empirically and ...
Lara Choksey
doaj  

Natural, un-natural and detached mimicry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Natural mimicry is ubiquitous. Plants mimic animals, animals mimic plants, animals mimic each other and animals may even mimic counterfactual states that deceive or distract other animals.
Pickering, John
core   +1 more source

Indications for a metatheoretic foundation of meaning in biosemiotics. Some philosophical remarks as an introduction to the Gatherings in Biosemiotic 6, Salzburg, Austria, 5-9 July 2006

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
Biosemiotics is the study of meaning in living systems; it is about context dependent communication and signification on all levels of biological organization.
Matthias Schafranek
doaj  

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