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

, 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
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Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation

Biosemiotics
Phenomenology, particularly as developed by Merleau-Ponty, primarily concerns how human beings perceive and act towards the world they encounter, their lifeworld.
J. Pickering
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From cause and effect to causes and effects

Journal 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

Quo Vadis, Biosemiotics?

Linguistic 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, Barbora Šonská, Ľudmila Lacková   +2 more
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Exploring Life’s Boundaries: Biosemiotics and the Challenge of Defining Life

Linguistic Frontiers
This article addresses the challenges of defining life by combining insights from biological and semi-otic perspectives. It explores the lexicographic complexity of defining life, analysing how definitions vary across scientific and philosophical ...
Nicola Zengiaro
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biosemiotics’ greatest potential contribution to biology

Chinese Semiotic Studies
Encouraging biologists to factor semiotics into their research is likely to fall on deaf ears because they already factor it in through an accepted life science methodological standard here called Abstract Parallel Engineering (APE).
J. Sherman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis

Sanglap: 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  

Observing Environments [PDF]

, 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
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The Importance of Biosemiotics for Morphology

Biosemiotics, 2020
Morphology and its relevance for systematics is a promising field for the application of biosemiotic principles in scientific practice. Genital coupling in spiders involves very complex interactions between the male and female genital structures.
J. Schult, Onno A. Preik, St. Kirschner
semanticscholar   +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

tripleC: 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
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