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Vibrant Worlds: An Artistic Interpretation of Material Intelligence in the Spider’s Umwelt
Starting from Jakob von Uexküll’s theory of meaning, the article explores the semiotic functions of the spider’s web, examining in depth its material...
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Umwelt Theory and Dis/Harmony: Forays into Dis/Ability, Dis/Ease, Trauma, and Ethological Divergence
This paper explores the relationship between the problem of dis/harmony in Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory and the inclusion of experiences of...
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Animal Attention in the Context of Zoosemiotics
Attention is viewed here as a complex of semiotic processes that leads to animals’ choices and behavioral decisions. Besides the focusing role of...
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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...
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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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A Philosophical and Cybersemiotic Reading of Von Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory
The primary objective of this paper is to review the notions of Umwelt and Functional Cycle from semiophilosophical and cybersemiotic perspectives...
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Descriptive Phenomenology as an Alternative to Prevent the Theory-Ladenness of Observation in the Study of Animal Behavior: Opening towards an Etho-Phenomenology
In ethology, and more generally in the study of animal behavior, observations are theory-laden . A review of theories of animal behavior reveals that...
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A Foray into Welt and Umwelt: Rereading the Onto-Ethological Discussion between Heidegger and Uexküll
Our article debates the issues at stake in the Heideggerian examination of the Umwelt theory in his Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics . This...
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Res Cogitans – The Evolution of Thinking
A somewhat prominent view in the literature is that language provides opportunity to program the brain with ‘cognitive gadgets’, or ‘virtual...
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Man in Relation to the World: Umwelt–Welt Transition
In the corpus of phenomenological philosophy (as far as it is influenced by the works of Jacob von Uexküll and the debate of phenomenologists with...
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Utterance-genre-lifeworld and Sign-habit-Umwelt Compared as Phenomenologies. Integrating Socio- and Biosemiotic Concepts?
This study develops a biosemiotic framework for a descriptive phenomenology. We incorporate the set utterance-genre-lifeworld in biosemiotic theory...
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The Ecosemiotics of Human-Wolf Relations in a Northern Tourist Economy: A Case Study
This article investigates the use of wolves to enchant the rationalization of Thompson Manitoba. The city attempted to refocus towards a more...
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The Explanatory Role of Umwelt in Evolutionary Theory: Introducing von Baer’s Reflections on Teleological Development
This paper argues that a central explanatory role for the concept of Umwelt in theoretical biology is to be found in developmental biology, in...
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Event Matching and the Biological Production of Spacetime
Space and time have been explained not in terms of physical entities but in terms of practice, that is, based on communication, which includes...
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A Foray into the Worlds of Plants and Fungi
In his extensive and revolutionary work, the biologist and philosopher Jakob von Uexküll examined the animal kingdom, laying the first foundations...
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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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How Agents Use Biological Codes and Artifacts to Interpret their Innenwelt and make Sense of their Mitwelt
The article reconciles contentious issues between code biology and biosemiotics. The framework of semantic biology and molecular meaning woven around o...
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Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s Dump Philosophy
This review admires Michael Marder’s inquiry as a parallel for which biosemiotics can find points of conceptual resonance, even as methodological...
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Metaphysics of the Organic Whole: Ehrenfels, Uexküll, and Merleau-Ponty
The aim of this paper is to compare the theory of Gestalt qualities, introduced by the Austrian philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932), with...