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The machines of evolution and the scope of meaning /
"Merging recent evolutionary thought, theories of information and signs, and new findings in animal studies, Gary Tomlinson's The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning offers a groundbreaking account of meaning in our world"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Zone Books,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Setting Terms
- I. Limits of Transspeciesism
- II. Atoms of Aboutness
- III. Keywords
- Information
- Mediation
- Sign
- Interpretant
- Signal (vs. sign)
- Part Two: The Abstract Machines of Evolution
- IV. The Evolutionary Mise en Abyme
- V. Darwin's Abstract Machine: Natural Selection
- VI. A Post-Darwinian Abstract Machine: Niche Construction
- VII. Extended Evolution and the Mediation Machine
- VIII. Toward the Question of Meaning
- IX. Teleosemantics: Trait, Function, and Meaning
- X. Teleodynamics: Constraint, Work, and Meaning
- XI. The Fourth Machine: Semiosis
- XII. Abstract and Episodic Signs
- XIII. Attention, Situational and Analytic
- XIV. Episodic Memory: Assembling the Index
- XV. Principles
- Part Three: Meaningful and Meaningless Complexity
- In the Realm of Aboutness: Songbirds
- XVI. Birdsong Basics
- XVII. Birdsong Meanings and Complexity
- XVIII. Avian Interpretants
- XIX. Metarelations in the Songbird Brain
- Nonsignifying Marvels: Honeybees
- XX. Puzzles of Invertebrate Complexity
- XXI. Sociochemistry of the Superorganism
- XXII. Desemanticizing the Waggle Dance
- XXIII. What a Bee Brain Can't Do
- XXIV. Meaning and Meaninglessness
- Part Four: Outstanding Questions
- XXV. Questions Concerning Evolution
- XXVI. Questions Concerning Technology
- XXVII. Questions Concerning Culture
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index