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Peirce and Biosemiotics

A Guess at the Riddle of Life

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Editors:
  1. Vinicius Romanini

    1. Escola de Comunicações e Artes, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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  2. Eliseo Fernández

    1. Linda Hall Library of Science & Techn., Kansas City, USA

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  • First volume dedicated to Biosemiotics from the perspective of the founder of semiotics
  • All authors are leading Peirce scholars with a philosophical background and interest in the enigma of life
  • All chapters open with selected quotations from Peirce, giving the reader a taste of his method and style
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 11)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Vinicius Romanini, Eliseo Fernández
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Intelligible Universe

    • Nathan Houser
    Pages 9-32

  4. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce’s Objective Idealism

    • Ivo A. Ibri
    Pages 33-49

  5. Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics

    • Robert Lane
    Pages 51-78

  6. Peircean Habits, Broken Symmetries, and Biosemiotics

    • Eliseo Fernández
    Pages 79-94

  7. Semeiotic Causation and the Breath of Life

    • Menno Hulswit, Vinicius Romanini
    Pages 95-126

  8. The Ineffable, the Individual, and the Intelligible: Peircean Reflections on the Innate Ingenuity of the Human Animal

    • Vincent Colapietro
    Pages 127-150

  9. Instinct and Abduction in the Peircean Informational Perspective: Contributions to Biosemiotics

    • Lauro Frederico Barbosa da Silveira, Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez
    Pages 151-169

  10. The Life of Symbols and Other Legisigns: More than a Mere Metaphor?

    • Winfried Nöth
    Pages 171-181

  11. Signs Without Minds

    • John Collier
    Pages 183-197

  12. Dicent Symbols and Proto-propositions in Biological Mimicry

    • João Queiroz, Frederik Stjernfelt, Charbel Niño El-Hani
    Pages 199-213

  13. Semeiosis as a Living Process

    • Vinicius Romanini
    Pages 215-239

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 241-248
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About this book

This volume discusses the importance of Peirce´s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic part of a complex architectonic philosophy that includes mathematics, phenomenology and a theory of reality. The authors are Peirce scholars, biologists, philosophers and semioticians united by an interdisciplinary endeavor to understand the mysteries of the origin of life and its related phenomena such as consciousness, perception, representation and communication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Escola de Comunicações e Artes, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Vinicius Romanini

  • Linda Hall Library of Science & Techn., Kansas City, USA

    Eliseo Fernández

About the editors

Vinicius Romanini, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication Studies at the School of Communications and Arts, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. His research interest is focused on the development of Peirce´s semeiotic into a transdisciplinary theory of Communication. He is the scientific editor of Semeiosis – Transdisciplinary Journal of Semiotics, member of the CLE research group on self-organization at UNICAMP and of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) for the Peirce Society.

Eliseo Fernández was born and educated in Argentina. He works at the Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology as a scientific consultant and taught at the University of Missouri at Kansas City for 18 years at the Physics Department. He has lectured and published papers and reviews on topics in the philosophy and history of science and on the thought of C. S. Peirce. His current research focuses on the application of some ideas of Peirce to current philosophical problems in physics and bio semiotics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Peirce and Biosemiotics

  • Book Subtitle: A Guess at the Riddle of Life

  • Editors: Vinicius Romanini, Eliseo Fernández

  • Series Title: Biosemiotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7732-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7731-6Published: 10 April 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0767-9Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7732-3Published: 25 March 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1875-4651

  • Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 248

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Philosophy of Biology, Pragmatism, Metaphysics

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