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Introduction: The Genesis of Biosemiotic Literary Criticism: How the Future “Presents” the Past
In this chapter, I provide a theoretical overview of the newly emerging field of biosemiotic criticism (aka “biosemiotic literary criticism”). I...
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Phenomenology
In this chapter we discuss the phenomenological tradition within philosophy with emphasis on representative phenomenological positions on...
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The Generation of Meaning and Preservation of Identity in Complex Adaptive Systems the LIPHE4 Criteria
This paper combines an interdisciplinary set of concepts and ideas to explore the interface between complexity science and biosemiotics and to...
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Ecoacoustics and Multispecies Semiosis: Naming, Semantics, Semiotic Characteristics, and Competencies
Biosemiotics to date has focused on the exchange of signals between organisms, in line with bioacoustics; consideration of the wider acoustic...
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Introduction: Knowing What an Organism Is
This book addresses various topics unified under a single overarching theme: agency. It is structured in two sections, one dedicated to philosophy,...
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Organs Crosstalk Perspective
Semiotics is the science involved in the study of signs and their meaning. The biosemiotic perspective considers that the essence of the vital...
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The Expressive Animal: Between Experience and Semiotic Perception
Studies on languaging in the field of enactive linguistics and contemporary biosemiotics have made it possible to pose in a novel way some problems...
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Conclusion
In the conclusion, I posit that the interdiscipline of biosemiotics appears to be uniquely positioned as an indispensable theoretical framework for...
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Self-Organization Through Semiosis
This article deals with the question of how self-organization in living organisms is realized. Self-organization may be observed in open systems that...
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Nosology and Semiotics
Semiotic concepts such as ‘sign’ and ‘symptom’ have been applied in medicine since ancient Greece. Against this background, a semiotic perspective on...
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Exploring the Philosophical Background and Scientific Foundations of Naturalist Approaches to Meaning and Symbolism
This introductory chapter delineates a general historical, philosophical, and scientific framework for the individual studies collected in this book....
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Living and Dwelling: A Biosemiotic and Anthropological View on Inhabiting, Art and Design
This paper juxtaposes biosemiotic and anthropological perspectives to consider the issue of dwelling and living, with particular reference to...
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The Role of Metaphors in Model-Building Within the Sciences of Meaning
Solidifying our understanding of science seldom takes the shape of a unified field. Underlying conditions may or may not be relevant drivers for...
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Introduction
This book offers a biosemiotic architectural treatise. An amalgamation of biosemiotic and architectural theory it is the first book of its kind....
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Modeling Environments in Literature and Literary Criticism
In this chapter, I focus on applying models from a semiotic point of view for the purposes of understanding how humans represent their environments,...
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Perceptions of Context. Epistemological and Methodological Implications for Meta-Studying Zoo-Communication
Although this study inspects context in general, it is even intended as a prerequisite for a meta-study of contextual time&space in...
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Ecological Epistemology
In seeking to understand theories of knowledge that comport with the naturalism beyond numeric certainty, theories, in other words, of true...
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The Implications of Umwelt in Poetics: The Case of Ye **e, a Seventeenth-Century Chinese Poet and Critic
The Umwelt investigated in this essay is a textualized world that a person dwells in, perceives, and experiences, as presented through classical...