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The circle and the maze: two images of ecosemiotics [PDF]
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
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From cause and effect to causes and effects
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
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Gatherings in Biosemiotics 24: Bloemfontein, South Africa 2024
Gatherings in Biosemiotics 24: Bloemfontein, South Africa ...
Xany Jansen Van Vuuren, Kobus Marais
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Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics
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
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From the Logic of Science to the Logic of the Living [PDF]
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
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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
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> 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
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The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis
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
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Natural, un-natural and detached mimicry [PDF]
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
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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
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