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Peirce and Biosemiotics A Guess at the Riddle of Life /

This volume discusses the importance of Peirce´s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic part of a complex architectonic philosophy that includes mathem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Romanini, Vinicius (Editor ), Fernández, Eliseo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Biosemiotics, 11
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; V. Romanini, E. Fernández
  • 1. The Intelligible Universe; N. Houser
  • 2. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce's Objective Idealism; I.A. Ibri
  • 3. Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics; R. Lane
  • 4. Peircean Habits, Broken Symmetries, and Biosemiotics; E. Fernández
  • 5. Semeiotic Causation and the Breath of Life; M. Hulswit, V. Romanini
  • 6. The Ineffable, the Individual and the Intelligible: Peircean Reflections on the Innate Ingenuity of the Human Animal; V. Colapietro
  • 7. Instinct and Abduction in the Peircean Informational Perspective: Contributions to Biosemiotics; L.F. Barbosa da Silveira, M.E. Quilici Gonzalez
  • 8. The Life of Symbols and Other Legisigns: More than a mere Metaphor?; W. Nöth
  • 9. Signs without Minds; J. Collier
  • 10. Dicent Symbols and Proto-propositions in Biological Mimicry; J. Queiroz
  • 11. Semeiosis as a Living Process; V. Romanini
  • List of Authors. References. Index.