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Ecomodernism and the Libidinal Economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio-Based Economy
In this paper, we carry out a critical analysis of the concept of technology in the current design of the bio-based economy (BBE). Looking at the...
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Cooperative Equilibrium in Biosphere Evolution: Reconciling Competition and Cooperation in Evolutionary Ecology
As our understanding of biological evolution continues to deepen, tension still surrounds the relationship between competition and cooperation in the...
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The Czech Reception of Portmann
The University of Prague and its graduates, unlike universities in Anglophone countries, for example, had a certain “preadaptation” to the reception...
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Information; Convergence of Science and Philosophy
If a philosophical statementConvergence of science and philosophy means something at all, has or conveys meaning, this fact does not and cannot stand...
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Semiotics and Semiosis: The Units and Dialectics of Meaning
This chapter develops the LIR notion of meaningMeaning and information dialectics of relation between as central not only to languageLanguage and...
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Philosophical Anthropology and Business Ethics
Underpinning all our judgments about how to live and how to act is our conception of what we are as human beings. As discussed in “Creating an...
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“A Single and Indivisible Principle of Unity”: On Growth and Form in Context
D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form is one of the key works at the intersection of science and the imagination. This introductory essay explores the...
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Gesture, meaning, and intentionality: from radical to pragmatist enactive theory of language
The article argues in favour of a pragmatist enactive interpretation of the emergence of the symbolic and contentful mind from a basic form of social...
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Formal Definition of Distinction
Laws of Form (LoF) defines distinction with two axioms and demonstrates a primary non-numerical arithmetic that grounds Boolean algebra (logic)....
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Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Approach to Philosophy
This chapter opens with a biographical overview of Michael Polanyi’s life and work before focusing on the post-critical orientation of his...
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Communicative Approaches to Biosemiotic Literary Criticism
In this chapter, I discuss what Timo Maran (Green Lett Stud Ecocrit 18:297–311, 2014a) calls “Communicative Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism.”...
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Reconsideration of Musical Gesture as a Musical Event in a Narrative Discourse
The purpose of this study is to reconsider musical narrativity and gesture in the semiotic sense through debate among the former studies, taking the...
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Contextualising and Decontextualising Knowledge: Extended Knowledge in Confucius, Mozi and Zhuangzi
I discuss Extended Cognition theory in relation to Confucius’s Analects, the Mozi, and the Zhuangzi. Extendedness is treated as part of an approach...
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Extending Whiteheadian Organic Cosmology to a Comprehensive Science of Nature
Attila Grandpierre follows the various trajectories of Whitehead’s fundamental affirmation of primal activity, from the microscopic to the...
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Life in Medium: Rethinking the Possibilities of Art and Bio-Media from an Aesthetic Ontology
This chapter explores the connection between art, science, and biotechnology from a philosophical standpoint. We draw on concepts and theories from...
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Emergence
The concept of emergence today knows a fortune that goes beyond the scope of epistemology and the philosophy of science making it one of the leading...
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Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience
Advances in artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing are expanding human-computer interaction (HCI) in everyday life; turning phones, TVs,...
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Breaking Through Animalities
This chapter is the second episode of a three-part essay that explores the concept of the animal as an ontological question. The chapter discusses...
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Existential Semiotics and Its Application to Music: The Zemic Theory and Its Birth from the Spirit of Music
Existential semioticsExistential semiotics, a new theory stemming from combination of classicalClassical style semiotics (Paris school) and...
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Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze: Decentered Hermeneutics
Chapter 10 deals with four post-structuralist theorists from the perspective of their relation to Kant’s...