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The biosemiotics of Aldo Leopold

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2016
Responding to Jean-Claude Gens’ article, “Uexküll’s Kompositionslehre and Leopold’s ‘land ethic’ in dialogue”, which appeared in Sign Systems Studies in 2013, the article further develops a direct connection between Aldo Leopold’s approach to ecology and
Rebecca C. Potter
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Individual variation in perceived density of conspecifics and its impacts on the realization of ecological niches

open access: yesOikos, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
Animals gather information about their surroundings, including their social environment, using a wide range of sensory modalities. Variation in reception, processing and interpretation of information (cues or signals) can lead to differences in how individuals perceive their local environment. Yet, how individual differences in environmental perception
Ane Liv Berthelsen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophie der Tierforschung: Milieus und Akteure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »
Kristian Köchy   +2 more
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Critical Foundations of the Contextual Theory of Mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The contextual mind is found attested in various usages of the term complement, in the background of Kant. The difficulties of Kant's intuitionism are taken up through Quine, but referential opacity is resolved as semantic presence in lived context.
antiquari(at)vodamail(dot)co(dot)za, Mr S.A. Orwin O'Dowd
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Enaction-Based Artificial Intelligence: Toward Coevolution with Humans in the Loop

open access: yes, 2013
This article deals with the links between the enaction paradigm and artificial intelligence. Enaction is considered a metaphor for artificial intelligence, as a number of the notions which it deals with are deemed incompatible with the phenomenal field ...
De Loor, Pierre   +2 more
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence

open access: yesAggressive Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are relatively understudied. In four studies, using five samples from Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey (total N = 3758), we conceptualize and develop a new ...
Ramzi Abou‐Ismail   +5 more
wiley   +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
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Propagation of social representations [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Based on a minimal formalism of social representations as a set of associated cognems, a simple model of propagation of representations is presented. Assuming that subjects share the constitutive cognems, the model proposes that mere focused attention on
Abric J.C.   +35 more
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Le béhaviorisme sémiotique de Jakob von Uexküll

open access: yesHistoire Épistémologie Langage, 2021
The article offers a contextualization of the theories of the Baltic biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944). Uexküll’s works show convergence points both with non-physicalist versions of behaviorism and with neo-vitalism. Moreover, the importance of his
Didier Samain
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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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