Titlebook: Essential Readings in Biosemiotics; Anthology and Commen Donald Favareau Book 2009 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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The Logic of Signsosemiotics in the 1970s – the lifelong investigation into “the logic of signs” undertaken by scientist and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce serves as a model for those wishing to begin the investigation into the bio-logic of sign relations in living systems.

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Introduction: An Evolutionary History of Biosemioticse larger currents of philosophical and scientific thinking from which it has emerged. Accordingly, to explain the origins of this most 21st century endeavour requires effectively tracing – at least to the level of a thumbnail sketch – how the “sign” concept appeared, was lost, and now must be painst

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The Theory of Meaningn Uexküll occupies a singularly prominent position in the contemporary attempt to develop a biological science of signs. “When we talk about [Uexküll’s bio-analytical concept of] .,” writes historian of ideas John Deely, “we are talking about the central category of zoösemiosis and anthroposemiosis

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Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation and Prospectswin), and because the story of his founding of the contemporary interdiscipline of biosemiotics is recounted in some detail in the introductory overview of biosemiotics that is Chapter one of this volume, we will limit the comments that appear in this reading selection preface to just the barest bio

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The Clever Hans Phenomenon from an Animal Psychologist’s Point of Viewury iterations of biosemiotics” prior to the one that Sebeok himself initiated. “One of the sundry riddles that mar the gradual coming into view of modern biosemiotics,” writes Sebeok, “is the neglect of Heini Hediger, whose lifelong attempt to understand animals surely marked a milestone in the elu