Peirce and Biosemiotics: A Guess at the Riddle of Life (Biosemiotics, 11)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-8 The Intelligible Universe....Pages 9-32 The Continuity of Life: On Peirce’s Objective Idealism....Pages 33-49 Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics....Pages 51-78 Peircean Habits, Broken Symmetries, and Biosemiotics....Pages 79-94 Semeiotic Causation and the Breath of Life....Pages 95-126 The Ineffable, the Individual, and the Intelligible: Peircean Reflections on the Innate Ingenuity of the Human Animal....Pages 127-150 Instinct and Abduction in the Peircean Informational Perspective: Contributions to Biosemiotics....Pages 151-169 The Life of Symbols and Other Legisigns: More than a Mere Metaphor?....Pages 171-181 Signs Without Minds....Pages 183-197 Dicent Symbols and Proto-propositions in Biological Mimicry....Pages 199-213 Semeiosis as a Living Process....Pages 215-239 Back Matter....Pages 241-248 "This volume discusses the importance of Peircés 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 ands its related phenomena such as consciousness, perception, representation and communication - Font no determinada 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 ands its related phenomena such as consciousness, perception, representation and communication