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Toward a biosemiotic theoretical biology : sign processes and meaning-making in living systems / edited by Kalevi Kull and Donald Favareau
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Vienna series in theoretical biology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--Semiotics.
- Biology.
- Life sciences.
- Organisms.
- Biological Science Disciplines.
- biological sciences.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biological Science Disciplines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "An edited volume bringing together 25 of today’s most forward-thinking biologists and philosophers on sign processes and meaning-making in organisms. Theoretical biology is concerned with providing science with explanatory frameworks within which to fit its findings. The relatively newer field of Biosemiotics is the study of sign processes within life processes. In the tradition of the field-changing four-volume essay collection Towards a Theoretical Biology issued by developmental biologist Conrad Hal Waddington from 1968 to 1972, this volume brings together many of today’s leading scientists to discuss what they consider to be the most important and pressing problems in our current understandings of the biological world—and how best to advance our understandings of such life processes scientifically"-- MIT Press Direct
- Contents:
- Theoretical biology on its way toward biosemiotics : history, concepts, problems / Kalevi Kull and Donald Favareau
- "The pattern that connects \[corrects]" : Bateson, Waddington, the IUBS, and the antireductionist heart of theoretical biology / Erik Peterson
- Organisms as meaning-makers / Charles Wolfe
- From stochasticity to ecological intelligence and the nature of choice / Raymond Noble and Denis Noble
- Signs of life : inter-kingdom communication and the sympoietic organism / Scott F. Gilbert
- Semiotic agency : life is meaning-making / Alexei Sharov
- The origins of life agency and meaning / Stuart Kauffman
- Inverse Darwinism : an abductive complement to natural selection? / Matt Kalkman and Terrence Deacon
- Evolution by habits : organismal organization beyond natural selection / Jana Švorcová and Karel Kleisner
- Protective mimicry as potential : does its realization involve active or passive perception, or both? / Richard I. Vane-Wright
- Toward expanded reproduction : an intra- and interorganismal relational account / Arantza Etxeberria and David Cortés-García
- Making mind matter with irruption theory : bridging efficacy and uncertainty by satisfying the participation criterion / Tom Froese, Georgii Karelin, and Takashi Ikegami
- Bioinformatics meets biosemiotics and signal peptides emerge as dicisigns / Henrik Nielsen, Mariana Vitti Rodrigues, and Claus Emmeche
- Meaning in cells : a relational biosemiotic approach / Federico Vega
- Organic intelligence : the role of repetition and mathematical groups in natural discernment / Daniel C. Mayer-Foulkes
- Taking a life stance / Anton Markoš
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (MIT Press Direct, viewed June 22, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Toward a biosemiotic theoretical biology
- ISBN:
- 9780262053631
- 0262053632
- 9780262053624
- 0262053624
- OCLC:
- 1596640812
- Access Restriction:
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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