The relationship between semiotics and mechanical models of explanation in the life sciences

Articles in the same Issue

1. Titelei
2. Sonstiges
3. Editor’s note: Towards a prehistory of biosemiotics
4. Peirce and biology
5. The biological basis of Victoria Welby’s significs
6. Charles Morris’s biosemiotics
7. Roman Jakobson and biology: ‘A system of systems’
8. Towards biosemiotics with Yuri Lotman
9. Natural selection and Maxwell’s demons: A semiotic approach to evolutionary biology
10. On genes, cells, and memory
11. Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
12. An Aristotelian approach to animal behavior
13. Biohermeneutics and hermeneutics of biology
14. Evolutionary perspective for cognitive function: Cerebral basis of heterogeneous consciousness
15. Literary biosemiotics and the postmodern ecology of John Clare
16. The Sarkar challenge to biosemiotics: Is there any information in a cell?
17. Semiotics of the artificial: The ‘self’ of self-reproducing systems in cellular automata
18. Order out of indeterminacy
19. The concept of nature in ancient Finns and Karelians
20. The two foci of biology: Matter and sign
21. Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: A view from biology
22. A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions
23. The clock and its triadic relationship
24. Living signs
25. A semiotic attempt to corral creativity via generativity
26. A new causality for the understanding of the living
27. The origin and evolution of signs
28. Biosemiotics and formal ontology
29. Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality as a universal entailment
30. Semiosis: The transformation of energy into information
31. Psychic closure: A prerequisite for the recognition of the sign-function?
32. The emergence of difference: Some notes on the evolution of human semiosis
33. The relationship between semiotics and mechanical models of explanation in the life sciences