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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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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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Merleau-Ponty and the Measuring Body [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In recent years a growing number of scholars in science studies and related fields are developing new ontologies to displace entrenched dualisms. These efforts often go together with a renewed interest in the roles played by symbolisms and tools in ...
Abram David   +32 more
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Natural languages and RNA virus evolution

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, Volume 602, Issue 11, Page 2565-2580, 1 June 2024.
Abstract figure legend Investigating information approaches applied to molecular biology across diverse disciplines. Abstract Information concepts from physics, mathematics and computer science support many areas of research in biology. Their focus is on objective information, which provides correlations and patterns related to objects, processes ...
Ascensión Ariza‐Mateos   +5 more
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De la fundamentación de la metafísica al mundo circundante

open access: yesMutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía
Helmuth Plessner fue probablemente el primero en caracterizar la teoría del mundo circundante (Umwelt) de Jakob von Uexküll como fenomenológica, considerándola una auténtica “fenomenología del comportamiento vivo”.
Stephanie Martinic Caneo   +1 more
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Time-plans of the organisms: Jakob von Uexküll’s explorations into the temporal constitution of living beings

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2011
The term “time-plan” is introduced in the article to sum up the diversity of temporal processes described by Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) in the framework of the general Planmässigkeit of nature.
Riin Magnus
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Theories of the development of human communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article considers evidence for innate motives for sharing rituals and symbols from animal semiotics, developmental neurobiology, physiology of prospective motor control, affective neuroscience and infant communication. Mastery of speech and language
Delafield-Butt, Jonathan   +1 more
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Race and breathing therapy: The career of Lothar Gottlieb Tirala (1886–1974)

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2004
The historiography of life, work and visions of Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) has grew up during the last years. But up to now lifes of his important followers in science are still unknown.
Florian Mildenberger
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Translating Jakob von Uexküll — Reframing Umweltlehre as biosemiotics

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2009
Thomas Sebeok attributed it to what he called the ‘wretched’ translation of Uexküll’s Theoretische Biologie (1920) that the notion of Umwelt did not reach the Anglo-American intellectual community much earlier.
Prisca Augustyn
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Uexküll studies after 2001

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2020
Jakob von Uexküll’s (1864–1944) work was influential at the time of the biosemiotic turn in semiotics in the 1990s and, together with the hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches, laid the basis for a semiotic turn in biology without losing a ...
Kalevi Kull
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