Biosemiotics and evolution : the natural foundations of meaning and symbolism / Elena Pagni, Richard Theisen Simanke, editors.

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Weitere Verfasser: Pagni, Elena (HerausgeberIn), Simanke, Richard Theisen (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Interdisciplinary evolution research ; v. 6.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Life, meaning, and information
  • Exploring the philosophical background and scientific foundations of naturalist approaches to meaning and symbolism
  • Life sciences and the natural history of signs: can the origin of life processes coincide with the emergence of semiosis?
  • A proposal for a biosemiotic approach to digitalization: literacy as modelling competence
  • Threshold, meaning and life
  • How information gets its meaning
  • Part II: Semiosis and evolution
  • Inclusive Fitness teleology and Darwinian explanatory pluralism: a theoretical sketch and an application to current controversies
  • The origins and evolution of design: a stage-based model
  • Biosemiotics and applied evolutionary epistemology: a comparison
  • Extended synthesis and Jablonka and Lambs four-dimensional view of evolution
  • Part III: Physics, medicine, and bioenergetics
  • Physical intentionality: the phenomenological roots of biosemiotics
  • Cancer and cell death: a biosemiotic perspective
  • Biosemiotics and bioenergetics: two perspectives compared.