Editors:
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Escola de Comunicações e Artes, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Vinicius Romanini
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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