Combining research approaches from biology, philosophy and linguistics, the field of Biosemiotics proposes that animals, plants and single cells all engagein semiosis – the conversion of objective signals into conventional signs. This has important implications and applications for issues ranging from naturalselection to animal behavior and human psychology, leaving biosemiotics at the cutting edge of the research on the fundamentals of life. Drawing on an international expertise, the book details the history and study of biosemiotics, and provides a state-of-the-art summary of the current work in this new field. And, with relevance to a wide range of disciplines – from linguistics and semiotics to evolutionary phenomena and the philosophy of biology – the book provides an important text for both students and established researchers, while marking a vital step in the evolution of a new biological paradigm. Biosemiotics is the Third Culture providing a bridge between Sciences and Humanities Key idea of Biosemiotics is that the existence of genetic code requires both conceptof biological information and biological meaning Strong attack on doctrine ofphysicalism that the concept of meaning does not belong to Life Sciences First comprehensive introduction to new Biosemiotics Science INDICE: Editorial.- Part 1: Historical points. 1. The evolutionary historyof biosemiotics. 2. Semiosis in evolution. 3. Has biosemiotics come of age? –and Postscript.- Part 2: Theoretical issues. 4. The necessity of biosemiotics. 5. What is the scope of biosemiotics? Information in living systems. 6. Semiotic scaffolding of living systems. 7. Biosemiotics and biophysics. 8. Is the cell a semiotic system?. 9. Computing codes versus interpreting life. 10. Toward a Darwinian biosemiotics. 11. From the logic of science to the logic of theliving. 12. Towards a standard terminology for (bio)semiotics. 13. Information theory and error-correcting codes in genetics and biological evolution.- Part 3: Biosemiotic research. 14. RNA as code makers: a biosemiotic view of RNAi and cell immunity. 15. Cellular semiotics and signal transduction. 16. Inner representations and signs in animals. 17. A biosemiotic approach to epigenetics. 18. Language and interspecific communication experiments.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-8344-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 532
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés