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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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomlinson, Gary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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