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Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation
Phenomenology, particularly as developed by Merleau-Ponty, primarily concerns how human beings perceive and act towards the world they encounter,...
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Charles Peirce’s Philosophy and the Intersection Between Biosemiotics and the Philosophy of Biology
Charles S. Peirce’s philosophy of signs, generally construed as the foundation of current semiotic theory, offers a theory of general perception with...
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Deleuze and Biosemiotics: Biological Emergence, Agency, and Subjectivity in Logic of Sense and A Thousand Plateaus
A vital step to successfully orienting Deleuze with biosemiotics (and theories of biological complexity overall) is to discover a coherent scientific...
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Semiotics, Biosemiotics, and Aesthetics: the Concept of Beauty and Beyond
This short commentary expands a little on the disciplinary history of semiotics and biosemiotics, and its relation to aesthetics. It aims at...
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Lessons Learned: the 20th Gatherings in Biosemiotics
We review the organization and contents of the 20th Gatherings in Biosemiotics. As the organizers, we share our insights from organizing a community...
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Multimodal Modeling: Bridging Biosemiotics and Social Semiotics
This paper explores a semiotic notion of body as starting point for bridging biosemiotic with social semiotic theory. The cornerstone of the argument...
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The Musical Turn in Biosemiotics
Human music and language are two systems of communication and expression that, while historically considered to overlap, have become increasingly...
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Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Biosemiotics
Forty-five years ago, while still an undergraduate student at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies,...
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Joining Forces Against Neo-Darwinism: Linking Organicism and Biosemiotics
The theoretical biologist Waddington (
1975 , 16ff.) drew attention to the damage to scientific progress by COWDUNG – the Conventional Wisdom of the... -
Introduction: Biosemiotics and Evolution
One of the most exciting endeavours and opportunities presented to a researcher lies in the possibility of being at the hinges of historical change,...
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Biosemiotics, Holistic Biology and Self-Actualization
Rehabilitation entails a person-centered process facilitating self-actualization and optimizing the functional reconstruction of the human organism...
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Life’s organization between matter and form: Neo-Aristotelian approaches and biosemiotics
In this paper, I discuss the neo-Aristotelian approaches, which usually reinterpret Aristotle’s ideas on form and/or borrow the notion of formal...
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The Importance of Biosemiotics for Morphology
Morphology and its relevance for systematics is a promising field for the application of biosemiotic principles in scientific practice. Genital...
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Biosemiotics and Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A Comparison
Both biosemiotics and evolutionary epistemology are concerned with how knowledge evolves. (Applied) Evolutionary Epistemology thereby focuses on...
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Biosemiotics and Bioenergetics: Two Perspectives Compared
The purpose of this work is to show how the body, understood as a biological body or as the expression of psychic phenomena, represents a dimension...
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Semiosis and Information: Meeting the Challenge of Information Science to Post-Reductionist Biosemiotics
The concept of information and its relation to biosemiotics is a major area of contention among biosemioticians. Biosemioticians influenced by von...
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Coevolution Dynamics and the Biosemiotics of Human Change
Scope Clarify how coevolution, cooperation, and creation dynamics are crucial in human change. Method Exploring the paradox of private language,...