Recently added articles from The American Journal of Semiotics:
Joining Sign Science and Life Science: Introduction to The American Journal of Semiotics' Special Issue on Biosemiotics
Jan 01, 2008; ... Semiotics has itself thrived in a generative atmosphere of specialization and synthesis. Now, in an expanding intellectual universe, we converge with several other strains of scholarship .... We not only acknowledge this convergence and complementarity, but actively welcome the emerging ...
The Code Model of Semiosis: The First Steps Toward a Scientific Biosemiotics
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Biosemiotics asserts the idea that semiosis is fundamental to life, and that all living creatures are therefore semiotic systems. The idea itself is strongly supported by the evidence of the genetic code - but thus far it has made little impact in the scientific world, and is ...
The IASS Roundtable on Biosemiotics: A Discussion with Some Founders of the Field
Jan 01, 2008; ... Participants: Claus Emmeche (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Jesper Hoffmeyer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu, Estonia), Anton Markos" (Charles University, Prague), Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen, ...
The Biosemiotics of Plant Communication
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstracts: This contribution demonstrates that the development and growth of plants depends on the success of complex communication processes. These communication processes are primarily sign-mediated interactions and are not simply an mechanical exchange of information) as that term has ...
Semiotic Freedom: Emergence and Teleology in Biological and Cognitive Interfaces
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract : The emergence of organic, metabolic, cognitive and cultural codes points us to the need for a new kind of explanatory causality, and a different kind of bio-logic - one dependent on, but different from, the deterministic logic derived from mechanical causality, and one which ...
A Peircean Approach to 'Information' and its Relationship with Bateson's and Jablonka's Ideas
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: The Peircean semiotic approach to information that we developed in previous papers raises several new questions, and shows both similarities and differences with regard to other accounts of information. We do not intend to present here any exhaustive discussion about the ...
Organic Problem Solving: Biology, Decision Theory, and the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Sign-theoretical concepts have been used in research into the nature of living systems, not only by biologists, semioticians, and philosophers, but also by scientists who analyze organisms from the perspective of Decision Theory. Decision Theory (DT) describes both the external ...
Sign-Mediated Concept Formation
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Based on our prior work (Neuman and Nave, in press [a]) we proceed from the notion that the mind has the capacity to generate and use concepts through the mediation of signs. This mediation constrains the vast potential for confusion, given the incalculable number of ...
Computer-Mediated Communication In Biology
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Increasingly, biologists are using computers to model and to create biological representations. However, the exponential growth in available biological data poses a challenge for experimental and theoretical researchers in both Biology and in Computer Science. In short, when ...
Roots of the Contemporary Mental Model in Ancient Mythology
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: This paper asserts that the dominant mental models of a social system are shaped by the conditions at the time when the society first gains its identity and unity, and that the basic traits of these models are maintained to a great extent throughout that society's subsequent ...
Between Nature and Culture: A Glimpse of the Biosemiotic World in Fourth-Century BCE Chinese Philosophy
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: When ancient Chinese philosophy culminated in the sixth to third centuries BCE, "hundreds of flowers [intellectual schools] were blooming", yet not many theoreticians were particularly interested in questions regarding the relationship between animal and human life - despite ...
'Do not block the path of inquiry!' Peircean Abduction, the Tacit Dimension, and Biosemiotic Creativity in Nature and Culture
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Drawing on biosemiotic theory and the Peircean idea of 'abduction,' I shall propose the idea of a layered structure of bio/semiotic evolution, in which human knowledge is systemic and recursive - and thus emergent both from what is forgotten and from earlier evolutionary ...
Social Anthropology Volume 12
Jan 01, 2008; ... Social Anthropology Volume 12, Part Two, June 2004; Special Issue: "Anthropology After Darwin," 173-221 One of the aims of Biosemiotics is to draw the relations between culture and nature into a more intimate embrace so that far from being opposed to nature, the richly endowed ...
The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture by Wendy Wheeler (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2006; ISBN 1-905007-30-2). 173 pages. The creation of holistic frameworks and the adoption of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities (e.g., in the areas of ...
Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis, edited by Marcello Barbieri (Dordrecht: Springer. 1999; ISBN: 978-1-4020-4813-5). xii + 530 pages, with Index. It would be reasonable to assume that a book entitled Introduction to ... would be a single-author monograph, concise ...
THE SEVENTH SEBEOK FELLOW: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Jan 01, 2008; ... Semioticians from the North American clime who know of Susan Petrilli s work mainly from her lectures delivered at the 2002 San Antonio1 and 2003 Ottawa2 meetings of the Semiotic Society of America are, with this first of what we may expect to be a continuing series of Sebeok Fellow Special ...
"Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow" Plenary Address: Semioethics and Responsibility: Beyond Specialisms, Universalisms and Humanisms
Jan 01, 2008; ... I wish to thank John Deely for his suggestions and comments which have benefited my work in preparing this address and special issue. Of course, as author, I take full responsibility for every detail and aspect, whether positive or negative, for any merits or limits. I have already had occasion ...
Working with Interpreters of the "Meaning of Meaning": International Trends among 20th-Century Sign Theorists
Jan 01, 2008; ... When Ogden and Richards in 1923 published their book titled The Meaning of Meaning, one can wonder whether they did so fully realizing that their work laid down a marker for the entire 20th-century discussion of signs, a discourse which would bring about the decisive transition beyond modernity ...
The Relation with Morris in Rossi-Landi's and Sebeok's Approach to Signs1
Jan 01, 2008; ... [T]he modern history of semiotics in my view does not start from de Saussure or even from Peirce, but from the time when Charles Morris, then Jakobson, and finally Thomas A. Sebeok who - with the seminal 1964 conference in Bloomington - organized the field and gave it institutional existence ....
Iconicity and the Origin of Language: Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) and Giorgio Fano (1885-1963)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The first partial edition of Origini e natura del linguaggio by Giorgio Fano appeared in 1962, under the tide Saggio sulle origini del linguaggio (Essay on the origins of language). The enlarged edition appeared in 1973, and by comparison to the 1962 edition deals not only with the problem of ...