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SEMIOTICA
VOLUME 127 NUMBER 1-4 1999
CONTENTS
1. Editor’s note: Towards a prehistory of biosemiotics
Thomas A Sebeok
1
Biosemiotica I
2. Peirce and biology
Lucia Santaella Braga
5
3. The biological basis of Victoria Welby’s significs
Susan Petrilli
23
4. Charles Morris’s biosemiotics
Susan Petrilli
67
5. Roman Jakobson and biology: ‘A system of systems’
Loura Shintani
103
6. Towards biosemiotics with Yuri Lotman
Kalevi Kull
115
Biosemiotica II
7. Natural selection and Maxwell’s demons: A semiotic approach to
evolutionary biology
Luis Eugenio Andrade
133
8. On genes, cells, and memory*
Sabine Brauckmann
151
9. Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics:1 Reconceptualizing
the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics
in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
Soren Brier
169
10. An Aristotelian approach to animal behavior*
Berit O. Brogaard
199
11. Biohermeneutics and hermeneutics of biology
Sergey V. Chebanov
215
12. Evolutionary perspective for cognitive function: Cerebral basis of
heterogeneous consciousness*
Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya
227
13. Literacy biosemiotics and the postmodern ecology of John Clare
W. John Coletta
239
14. The sarkar challenge to biosemiotics: Is there any information in a cell?
Claus Emmeche
273
15. Semiotics of the artificial: The ‘self’ of self-reproducing systems in
cellular automata*
Arantza Etxeberria and Jesus Ibanez
295
16. Order out of indeterminacy
Jesper Hoffmeyer
321
17. The concept of natura in ancient Finns and Karelians
Tuomo Jamsa
345
18. The two foci of biology: Matter and sign*
Yoshimi Kawade
369
19. Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: A view from biology
Kalevi Kull
385
20. A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions
Manfred D. Laubichler1
415
21. The clock and its triadic relationship
Koichiro Matsuno
433
22. Living signs
Floyd Merrell
453
23. A semiotic attempt to corral creativity via generativity*
S. N. Salthe
481
24. A new causality for the understanding of the living
Lucia Santaella Braga
497
25. The origin and evolution of signs
Alexei A. Sharov
521
26. Biosemiotics and formal ontology
Frederik Stjernfelt
537
27. Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality
as a universal entailment
Rod Swenson
567
28. Semiosis: The transformation of energy into information
Edwina Taborsky
599
29. Psychic closure: A prerequisite for the recognition of the sign-function?
Gertrudis Van De Vijver
613
30. The emergence of difference: Some notes on the evolution of human
semosis
Barend Van Heusden
631
31. The relationship between semiotics and mechanical models of explanation
in the life sciences1
Thure Von Uexkull
647