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Pensar la Filosofía de la Biología de Comienzos de siglo XX a Través de Jakob von Uexküll

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia, 2021
El desarrollo de la filosofía de la biología en la primera mitad del siglo xx ha sido objeto de múltiples estudios que buscan comprender la importancia que tuvo en el desarrollo de las ciencias de vida, la cual había sido minimizada hasta hace pocas ...
Maximiliano S. Beckel
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Symbol formation

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2004
Symbol formation is a term used to unify the view on the interdependencies in the research of the Hamburg University before 1933: the Philosophical Institute (William Stern, Ernst Cassirer), the Psychological Institute (Stern) with its laboratory (Heinz ...
Cornelius Steckner
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Semiotician or hermeneutician? Jakob von Uexküll revisited

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2004
Like other sciences, biosemiotics also has its time-honoured archive, consisting, among other things, of writings by those who have been invented and revered as ancestors of the discipline.
Han-liang Chang
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The Limits of Algorithmic Perception: technological Umwelt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What we see when we look at digital images is the result of underlying algorithmic processes, which are mostly hidden from view. While algorithms for image generation and processing contribute to a culture of mass-visualization, some aspects are obscured
Lee, Rosemary
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Presentación del Número Especial El Pensamiento Biológico de Jakob Von Uexküll

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia, 2021
La biología ha buscado desde sus comienzos un marco teórico e interpretativo, que permita dar cuenta del fenómeno de la vida, a un nivel general, y de los organismos a un nivel específico.
Eugenio Andrade   +1 more
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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
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 342-363, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
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The institutional fate of Uexküll’s umwelt theory at the University of Hamburg

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2023
Due to Jakob von Uexküll’s umwelt theory, the Institute for Umwelt Research at the University of Hamburg, that was founded in 1928, was a unique institution worldwide for holistic research into animal behaviour and perception.
Stefan Kirschner
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Neighbourhoodies: courageous community, colours, blazing bling and defiant delight [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
As we see a global culture appear across the planet identity politics simultaneously gravitate towards issues of the local. In society’s top strata people strive to live in posh areas with the right postal code. Subversive counterculture activists try to
von Busch, Otto
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To be means to communicate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The main idea underpinning the position outlined in this paper is a very common one. In fact, it is also quite old: the notion that structure facilitates. The paper attempts to sketch a picture of the human as a sign.
Cobley, Paul   +1 more
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