Overview

For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent meaning and signification in living nature - from the lowest level of sign processes in unicellular organisms to the cognitive and social behavior of animals - can emerge from a universe that was not so organized and meaningful from the very beginning (Emmeche etal. 2002: 41). In this volume, over 80 world-class scholars from more than 20 countries select a short quotation taken from any of Jesper Hoffmeyer's texts and provide their scholarly commentary upon that passage - whether in the form of an analytical explication, a critical disagreement or a conceptual extension - that as they feel asks the questions that need to be asked, proposes the ideas that need to be proposed, or that draws out the implications that need to be so explicitly drawn out, germane to the claims of the selected passage. At once a celebration and a serious academic development of the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer, this landmark volume marks the occasion of his 70th birthday on February 21, 2012.

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Author:   Donald Favareau ,  Paul Cobley ,  Kalevi Kull
Publisher:   Tartu University Press
Imprint:   Tartu University Press
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 12.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9789949199457

ISBN 10:   994919945
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   12 February 2012
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Donald Favareau 9 Agency Franco Giorgi 13 Algorithms Ajitesh Ghose 17 Alterity Augusto Ponzio 21 Anthroposemiotics Goran Sonesson 25 Art Drude von der Fehr 29 Bacteria Massimo Leone 33 Birdsong Almo Farina 37 Bladderworts Peter Harries-Jones 41 Bodies Robert E Innis 45 Categories Jerry Chandler 49 Causality Koichiro Matsuno 53 Chance Victoria N Alexander 57 Code-Duality Luis Emilio Bruni 61 Coherence Robert E Ulanowicz 65 Complexification Joao Queiroz 67 Connections Maxine Sheets-Johnstone 71 Consciousness Stacey E Ake 75 Control Winfried Noth 79 Conversation Emi Morita & Don Favareau 83 Co-Relations Vinicius Romanini 87 Culture Marcel Danesi 91 Data Dominique Lestel 93 Difference Phillip Guddemi 97 Digitality Anton Markos 101 Doubt Claus Emmeche 103 Duality Mogens Kilstrup 107 Emancipation Vincent Colapietro 111 6 Contents Emergence Asuncion Lopez-Varela Azcarate 115 Empathy Wolfgang Hofkirchner 119 Energy Riin Magnus 123 Enkinaesthesia Susan A J Stuart 127 Epistemization Howard Pattee 131 Evolution Eliseo Fernandez 135 Exhibition Morten Skriver 139 Fallibilism Bent Sorensen & Torkild Thellefsen 143 Fitness Timo Maran 147 Freedom Soren Brier 151 Hierarchy Stanley N Salthe 155 Individuation Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira 157 Information Terrence Deacon 161 Insistence Andreas Roepstorff 165 Interconnections Thomas Hylland Eriksen 167 Interdisciplinarity Sara Cannizzaro 169 Interpretants John Collier 175 Language Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi 179 Linguistics Prisca Augustyn 183 Metaphor Thierry Bardini 187 Naturalism Nathan Houser 191 OMverden Myrdene Anderson 195 Panpsychism John Pickering 197 Play Wendy Wheeler 201 Problematique Goran Dahl 207 Proprioception Peter W Barlow 211 Questions Steen Nepper Larsen 217 Recollections Bruce Weber 221 Reductionism Jes Fabricius Moller 223 Scaffolding Kalevi Kull 227 Scholarship Liz Swan 231 Science Frank Nuessel 235 Semethics Tommi Vehkavaara 239 Semiodividuality Susan Petrilli 243 Semiogenesis Morten Tonnessen 247 Contents 7 Semiotic Freedom Mihhail Lotman 251 Sensemaking Theresa Schilhab 255 Significance Daniel Mayer 259 Spandrels Gerald Ostdiek 263 Spirituality Philip Clayton 267 Stylistics Ekaterina Velmezova 271 Subjectivity Paul Cobley 273 Surfaces Charles Goodwin 277 Symbolosphere John Schumann 281 Sympathy Deana Neubauer 283 Synthesis Gerd B Muller 287 Teleodynamics Dorion Sagan 291 Terminology Frederik Stjernfelt 297 Tertium Datur Ingmar Meland 301 Triadicity Edwina Taborsky 305 Tyche! Vefa Karatay & Yagmur Denizhan 309 Unity Anna Aragno 313 Vis a Prospecto John Deely 315

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