2002

Table of contents

Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Kalevi Kull Editors' comment 11-13
 
Biosemiotics
 
Claus Emmeche The chicken and the Orphean egg: On the function of meaning and the meaning of function 15-32
Mihhail Lotman Umwelt and semiosphere 33-40
Kaie Kotov Semiosphere: Chemistry of being 41-55
Donald Favareau Beyond self and other: On the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity 57-100
Tom Ziemke On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms: Could a humanoid robot develop a human(oid) umwelt? 101-111
Soren Brier Intrasemiotics and cybersemiotics 113-128
Anton Markos, Fatima Cvrckova Back to the science of life 129-147
Stefan Artmann Three types of semiotic indeterminacy in Monod's philosophy of modern biology 149-161
Peter Harries-Jones Where bonds become binds: The necessity for Bateson’s interactive perspective in biosemiotics 163-181)
Andreas Weber Feeling the signs: Organic experience, intrinsic teleology and the origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas 183-200
Dominique Lestel Human/animal commmunications, language and evolution 201-212
Aleksei Turovski On the zoosemiotics of health and disease 213-219
Luis Emilio Bruni Does “quorum sensing” imply a new type of biological information? 221-243
Alexei Sharov Pragmatics and biosemiotics 245-258
Vefa Karatay, Yagmur Denizhan Semiotics of the "window" 259-270
Abir U. Igamberdiev Biological evolution — a semiotically constrained growth of complexity 271-282
Elling Ulvestad Biosemiotic knowledge — a prerequisite for valid explorations of extraterrestrial intelligent life 283-292
Tommi Vehkavaara Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics 293-313
Andres Luure Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies 315-325
Kalevi Kull A sign is not alive — a text is 327-336
Frederik Stjernfelt Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses 337-345
 
Physiosemiotics
 
Peder Voetmann Christiansen Habit formation as symmetry breaking in the early universe 347-360
Edwina Taborsky Energy and evolutionary semiosis 361-381
 
Reviews
 
Jesper Hoffmeyer Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok 383-386

                                                                                                        
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