Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on
the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims …

This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its
pertinence for the study of today's unstable culture-nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be …

This article discusses the potential of using interactive environments in autism therapy. We
specifically address issues relevant to the Aurora project, which studies the possible role of …

Adam Kendon studied biology and psychology at Cambridge and Oxford. At present
affiliated to the University of Pennsylvania and recently with the University of Naples …

This book presents programmatic texts on biosemiotics, written collectively by world leading
scholars in the field (Deacon, Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, Markoš, Pattee …

Abstract 1 The present chapter is intended to provide an introductory overview to the history
of biosemiotics, contextualizing that history within and against the larger currents of …

Ultimately we will only understand biological agency when we have developed a theory of
the organization of biological processes, and science is still a long way from attaining that …

Stuart Kauffman's revolutionary notion of the Adjacent Possible as an organizing principle in
nature shares much in common with logician Charles S. Peirce's understanding of the …

The field of semiotics is described as a general study of knowing. Knowing in a broad sense
as a process that assumes (and includes) at least memory (together with heredity) …

This chapter introduces the very idea of a semiotic biology. Here, one needs to know what
semiosis, the action of sign, is, and why semiotics, the study of signs processes, provides a …