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 …

Purpose This paper reviews research developments in semiosis (sign activity) as theorized
by Peirce, Eco and Sebeok, focusing specifically on the current study of “semiotic threshold …

This paper explores a semiotic notion of body as starting point for bridging biosemiotic with
social semiotic theory. The cornerstone of the argument is that the social semiotic criticism of …

The paper gives a detailed reconstruction and discussion of Peirce's doctrine of
propositions, so-called Dicisigns, developed in the years around 1900. The special features …

Contents: 1. Major Steps Towards the Extension: Four Women who changed the
Evolutionary Scene. 2. The Model of extended Synthesis adds the Independent Role of …

This book builds on Marais's innovative A (Bio) Semiotic Theory of Translation to explore the
implications of this conceptualization of translation as the semiotic work from which social …

This chapter introduces principles for welfare assessment of farmed fish. The introduction
details the developments in science and society regarding the proposition that fish have a …

Life processes at all levels (from the genetic to the behavioral) are coordinated by semiotic
interactions between cells, tissues, membranes, organs, or individuals and tuned through …

The concept of information has been extensively studied and written about, yet no
consensus on a unified definition of information has to date been reached. This paper seeks …

We comment here on a target article by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg, which adds an
interesting and important contribution to semiotic biology by their discussion of cognition and …