Biosemiotics and evolution the natural foundations of meaning and symbolism /
This book reviews the evolution of Biosemiotics and gives an outlook on the future of this interdisciplinary new discipline. In this volume, the foundations of symbolism are transformed into a phenomenological, technological, philosophical and psychological discussion enriching the readers knowledge...
| Other Authors: | Pagni, Elena,, Simanke, Richard Theisen,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham :
Springer,
[2021]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color). |
| Series: |
Interdisciplinary evolution research ;
v. 6. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Life, meaning, and information
- Exploring the philosophical background and scientific foundations of naturalist approaches to meaning and symbolism
- Life sciences and the natural history of signs: can the origin of life processes coincide with the emergence of semiosis?
- A proposal for a biosemiotic approach to digitalization: literacy as modelling competence
- Threshold, meaning and life
- How information gets its meaning
- Part II: Semiosis and evolution
- Inclusive Fitness teleology and Darwinian explanatory pluralism: a theoretical sketch and an application to current controversies
- The origins and evolution of design: a stage-based model
- Biosemiotics and applied evolutionary epistemology: a comparison
- Extended synthesis and Jablonka and Lambs four-dimensional view of evolution
- Part III: Physics, medicine, and bioenergetics
- Physical intentionality: the phenomenological roots of biosemiotics
- Cancer and cell death: a biosemiotic perspective
- Biosemiotics and bioenergetics: two perspectives compared.